Hi Stepan,
* Stepan Kasal wrote on Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:06:02AM CEST:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 09:38:32AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>
> well, first you read in the autoconf manual:
>
> > | test "${var+set}" = set || var='${indirection}'
> > (aren't there, by the way, superfluous quotes on the right hand side?)
>
> The example is right, it doesn't mean
> var=${indirection}
>
> It means cases when the _literal_ string contains braces.
[ snip nice long explanation ]
Argh. Thank you! I just understood it all wrong.
> To sum up, I don't see anything which could be improved in Automake.
> The Autoconf manual could be improved, but I don't think it's worth it now.
Agreed.
> For Autoconf 3, we might comment out some of the problems described in
> "Shell Substitutions", and thus the recipe in "Assignments" will be
> simplified.
Have you started a list of issues for Autoconf 3 yet? :)
Cheers,
Ralf
