Re: ./configure -C creates config.cache it can't use

[Paul Eggert]

> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 21:20:31 -0400
> From: Matt McClure <address@hidden>
> 
> Can you reproduce this?

Not exactly, because I don't have access to an IRIX box.

> When I invoke configure, what tool in the chain does the requoting and
> escaping of the above line from aclocal.m4?

libtool does that itself, for some reason.  libtool.m4's
AC_LIBTOOL_CONFIG has some code with the following comment

  # Now quote all the things that may contain metacharacters while being
  # careful not to overquote the AC_SUBSTed values.  We take copies of the
  # variables and quote the copies for generation of the libtool script.

Apparently this code is misbehaving for
lt_cv_global_symbol_to_c_name_address.  Can you please send a
self-contained bug report to <address@hidden>?  The libtool
manual contains advice about bug reports.