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Re: Command Substitution in AC_ARG_WITH Help Strings
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Keith MARSHALL |
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Re: Command Substitution in AC_ARG_WITH Help Strings |
Date: |
Mon, 1 Aug 2005 09:27:32 +0100 |
>> > Given these limitations, can anyone suggest a better mechanism for
>> > achieving this objective?
>>
>> Use esyscmd to interpolate the output of the command at configure
creation
>> time.
>
> But does that really offer any advantage over using a shell script to do
the
> same thing? It still performs the substitution at the time when
configure is
> generated, rather than when it is run.
Sorry Andreas, I misunderstood this on first reading. Of course it will
be
cleaner than adding an extra file, and non-standard step, into the
autoconf
generation process for configure.
Thanks for the tip; now, if I can just figure out the correct m4
quoting...
Regards,
Keith.
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