On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > The problem is the backslash before _ACEOF. This comes from the code in > general.m4, apparently. Is there any strong reason why the here-document > delimiter is backslashed?
Judging by the changelog, it was to accommodate a defective editor: 2000-10-12 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * tests/mktests.sh: Backslash the quote in the heredocs to help syntax highlighting tools. * tests/atspecific.m4 (AT_CHECK_UPDATE): Give a better AT_SETUP title. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net