-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Jason Roscoe on 4/14/2008 1:00 PM: | This, of course, is not what I want. Instead of major="", I would like | the ending result to say major=$3 so. Can someone provide a hint as to | how I can achieve this?
The two byte sequence '$3' is being consumed by m4. You need to quote it so that it makes it through m4 unscathed; try the four bytes '[$]3'. Or resort to a quadrigraph, with the five bytes '%S|%3'. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkgDrB4ACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDrzgCfXZ/qRMc5X5GOqkGXxrCufmnZ 4QcAoLx+fetjOAZ+7stVCGpDlp9QCHru =ZtwF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
