| On Oct 11, 2000, Morten Eriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > Autoconf straight out of CVS will complain about "backquotes and
| > doublequotes should not be backslashed" when expanding the macro code
| > of _LT_AC_LTCONFIG_HACK libtool.m4.
|
| The problem is that CVS autoconf changes the way backquotes are
| interpreted, and issues a warning (even though it works correctly) in
| case they're written the way it used to work with autoconf 2.13.
|
| Replacing \` with ' is even worse, because then the shell won't
| expand the variable within `', as we want it.
That's why Morten used ' only :)
| The only way to do it so that it works with both autoconf 2.13 and CVS
| autoconf, without triggering the warning in CVS autoconf, is this
| (from CVS automake's missing.m4):
|
| am_backtick='`'
| AC_MSG_WARN([${am_backtick}$VAR' ...])
This is soooo heavy :( As I proposed to Pavel, I'm OK with moving this
warning from `syntax' to `obsolete' for 2.50, and move it back to
`syntax' in 2.51 or later. This way, every body is happy. ?
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