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Re: AC_HELP_STRING and quotes
From: |
Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: AC_HELP_STRING and quotes |
Date: |
19 Feb 2001 12:10:18 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) |
Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi!
>
> >>> "Pavel" == Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> writes:
>
> [...]
> Pavel> # m4_unquote(STRING)
> Pavel> # ------------------
> Pavel> # Remove one pair of the quotes if they exist
> [...]
>
> This just recall me of a place where I would like quotes not
> to be removed...
>
> I'd like to use AC_HELP_STRING to construct lines like
>
> --enable-foobar[=DIR] short description here
> ^ ^
Yep, this is a known problem, and you know it's known, and you know I
don't want to raise this issue :)
> Unfortunately, it appears there are no ways to obtain this
> (except not using AC_HELP_STRING).
It has to be recoded, it's dirty code, yielding dirty results. I'd
like to avoid this for 2.50.