With the latest CVS Autoconf:
[dprice@empress testSubDir]$ cat >configure.ac <<\EOF
> AC_INIT()
> AS_ESCAPE(m4_quote(AS_MKDIR_P(["sdir"])), [\$`])
> EOF
[dprice@empress testSubDir]$ rm configure.in
[dprice@empress testSubDir]$ autoconf
[dprice@empress testSubDir]$ ./configure
./configure: line 886: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
./configure: line 886: ` \\\\/* | ?:\\\\/* as_incr_dir=;;'
Taking a look at configure, we see:
{ case \"sdir\" in
\\\\/* | ?:\\\\/* as_incr_dir=;;
* as_incr_dir=.;;
esac
as_dummy="sdir"
for as_mkdir_dir in `IFS='/\\'; set X $as_dummy; shift; echo
"$@"`; do
case $as_mkdir_dir in
# Skip DOS drivespec
?:) as_incr_dir=$as_mkdir_dir ;;
*)
as_incr_dir=$as_incr_dir/$as_mkdir_dir
test -d "$as_incr_dir" || mkdir "$as_incr_dir"
;;
esac
done; }
), \$`)
^^^
Look there and at the case statement above.
It looks like the ')'s in AS_MKDIR_P's case statement are closing the
AS_ESCAPE statement early, but I thought I had quoted AS_MKDIR_P
properly.
Did I make a mistake? Shouldn't AS_ESCAPE work properly with a single
set of quotes around the string passed in? I tried using m4_dquote too,
unsuccessfully. Shouldn't _one_ of them work as is?
Derek
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