"Thomas E. Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Andreas Schwab wrote: |> |> > "Thomas E. Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> > |> > |> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Andreas Schwab wrote: |> > |> |> > |> > |> If you really want to do this you could use a shell variable: |> > |> > |> |> > |> > |> makefiles="$makefiles Makefile.maybe" |> > |> > |> |> > |> > |> AC_OUTPUT($makefiles) |> > |> > |> > |> > Better yet, use AC_CONFIG_FILES. Calling AC_OUTPUT with argument is |> > |> > considered obsolete usage. |> > |> |> > |> only by people who prefer to misuse the terms (what you should say, to be |> > |> accurate is that autoconf 2.5x is designed to be incompatible in this |> > |> area) |> > |> > In which way is it incompatible? |> |> aside from bugs? 2.53 has some new ones which I noticed but haven't |> gotten around to studying - I only got to that early this week. |> |> The usual point about incompatibility is that quoting has changed.
I haven't seen a case where inserting a pair of quotes that is now needed by 2.5x breaks the script for 2.13. The old version was just less strict about them, but it was wrong anyway. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE GmbH, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 N�rnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
