Re: AC quoting rules

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On 7 Feb 2002, Akim Demaille wrote:

>  AC_DEFUN([AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE],
>  [AC_LIBSOURCES([error.h, error.c])dnl
>  [AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([],[error_at_line (0, 0, "", 0, "");])],
>                  [AC_LIBOBJ(error)])])
>  ])
>
> Anyway, I don't think novices will write such things, they will merely
> invoke macros we provide.

not really (novices will copy things like this from existing scripts in
preference to studying to see how to use macros which you may have written
to replace those constructs).

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