Lars Hecking writes: > > > AC_CHECK_HEADERS( file.h file1.h ... file6.h \ > > file7.h file8.h ... file12.h \ > > file13.h) > > > > However, the code produced by the macro doesn't copy the '\' so it > > sees the newline and obviously breaks. Is there anyway around this > > other than to write a bunch of AC_CHECK_HEADERS (thus expanding the > > configure code a bunch?) > > Just leave out the '\'.
Hhm, I just re-checked ... You didn't say which version of autoconf! The '\' are indeed required, and this works fine with autoconf 2.13. I have had such code in gnuplot's configure.in for ages.