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

[Derek R. Price]

Akim Demaille wrote:

> | "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?

Yeah, sorry.  I'm trying to use AS_MKDIR_P in an unescaped heredoc context.  The
reason I don't seem to be able to avoid _that_ is that I want it to happen as 
part of
a step before a header gets created so I'm passing it into AC_CONFIG_HEADER as 
an
INIT-CMD.

Derek

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