Running through an autotools tutorial I encountered a problem caused by a 
white-space after my version number in my AC_INIT in configure.ac.

My offending line was :
AC_INIT( [Hello World] , [0.0] , [[email protected]] )

It looks fairly innocuous, however the space after the version number is 
presevered in the auto-generate Makefile when copying files into the distdir, 
such that the command is "cp -p file distdir-0.0 /file" (space after 0.0) which 
causes a "binary operator expected" error, for obvious reasons (once you 
isolate the line).

Anyway, it almost put me off and I share it in the small hope that it will help 
some new budding developer by relieving them of some minor frustration.

d.
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