Re: passing command-line switches to compiler

[Lars J. Aas]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 06:42:51PM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote:
: | > |  changequote(<<, >>)dnl 
: | > |   *-*-osf[45]*) 
: | > |  changequote([, ])dnl 
: | 
: | Akim> Kill the changequotes and use
: | Akim>    *-*-osf[[45]]*)
: | 
: | I usually recommend *against* this, on the grounds that it is too
: | subtle.
: 
: Well, there are other writings such as:
: 
: [   *-*-osf[45]*)]
: 
: or
: 
:    [*-*-osf[45]*])
: 
: but changequote should be banished from our community.

I agree with the example above, but I don't know how to get rid of my
changequotes unless there are any alternate methods to make strings with
m4-invocations inside a couple of []s?  What I'm thinking of specifically
in my case is that I configure the text inside "[default=...]" in some
AC_HELP_STRINGs.  I'd happily remove the changequote stuff if I knew how.
Using "(default=...)" breaks with the rest of the options listed with
"configure --help".

  Lars J