> indeed, multiline variables do not work with Automake.
> In a future release, the substituted multiline value should be
> escaped by default, so that the resulting makefile works correctly.
Good news.
> In the meantime, there is a workaround available: use the
> undocumented macro _AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE([FOO]) to instruct automake that
> this variable is to be omitted from the generated Makefile.in.
I tried _AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE, but I see the following error:
configure.ac:212: error: possibly undefined macro: _AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
Using m4_pattern_allow lets autoconf finish but then configure fails since
it doesn't know what to do with _AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE. I grepped through the
source of automake 1.9.6 and didn't find _AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE. Any chance the
macro has a different name?
Thanks for your help.
-DB
