On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Ralf Wildenhues <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> * NightStrike wrote on Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:17:49PM CEST:
>> I want to store a list of files determined at configure time into
>> shell variable, which then gets substituted into a Makefile.in.  So, I
>> did this:
>>
>> SYSHEAD_LIST=$srcdir/include/sys/*.h
>> AC_SUBST([SYSHEAD_LIST])
>>
>> That didn't work as expected, though.  It just substituted the string 
>> literal.
>>
>> How do I get the desired effect?
>
> Either
>  SYSHEAD_LIST=`echo $srcdir/include/sys/*.h`
>
> or
>  set x $srcdir/include/sys/*.h
>  shift
>  SYSHEAD_LIST="$*"

Which is more autoconfy-correct?

> This is purely a shell question.

Well, doing it my way worked fine on the command line, both in bash
and sh, so I was confused.


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