Hello Bruce, * Bruce Korb wrote on Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:50:56PM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > - alpha* | i[34567]86 | m68k | s390*) > > + alpha* | i[[34567]]86 | m68k | s390*)
> I figure that if it is this difficult to get it right, then > it is too difficult and it is wrong. Sometimes, though, I > feel like you disregard my usability warnings..... Actually, I don't know when I should have disregarded your warnings. I know a few times when you warned, but I did not know of a better way, and apparently nobody else did either. And frankly, I don't know a good way to make things easier here. changequote IMHO isn't one: as soon as you *know* where you would have needed it, you can also just use another quoting style. And yes, I tend to look into the resulting configure script when writing macros, and I routinely grep for likely error strings, but I simply do not know of a good mechanical way to prevent these kinds of quoting bugs that has no false positives. But I did find these errors with a grep '[^[]\[[0-9]' m4/*.m4 and sorting out the output. Cheers, Ralf
