Re: Problem with autoconf v2.52f

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, John Poltorak wrote:

> if test -n "$ac_init_help"; then
>
>   cat <<\_ACEOF    <------------------------------------************
>
> Optional Features:
>
>
> but if I change that line to:-
>
>   cat <<_ACEOF
>
>
> it works correctly.
>
> Can anyone suggest what is going wrong or how I can attempt to debug this
> problem?

The backslash is a quote character.  Using a quote (which could also be
a single- or double-quote character) tells the shell to not expand symbols
in the here-document.  It's likely that your shell is not treating that
backslash as a quote.  I'd try replacing it with a single-quote.

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