Re: Bug in AS_ESCAPE, AS_MKDIR_P, or my understanding of M4?

[Akim Demaille]

| "Derek R. Price" wrote:
| > Alexandre Oliva wrote:
| >
| > > On Jan 30, 2001, "Derek R. Price" <address@hidden> wrote:
| > >
| > > >> AS_ESCAPE(m4_quote(AS_MKDIR_P(["sdir"])), [\$`])
| > >
| > > The simple rule is that every macro argument should be enclosed in
| > > quotes.
| >
| > So the above _should_ work and there's a bug in AS_ESCAPE?
| 
| Wait a second.  The bug's in m4_quote, except it's not a bug - that's how it's
| designed.  I'll get back to you.  Unless someone can tell me off the top of 
their
| head the correct syntax for the above?

Could you first tell what you mean to do?