FYI: Portability and default values in config.status

[Akim Demaille]

Index: ChangeLog
from  Akim Demaille  <address@hidden>
        * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS): Fix the portability of
        the default assignment of CONFIG_FILES, CONFIG_HEADERS,
        CONFIG_LINKS and CONFIG_COMMANDS.

2000-11-29  Akim Demaille  <address@hidden>

Index: acgeneral.m4
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RCS file: /cvs/autoconf/acgeneral.m4,v
retrieving revision 1.640
diff -u -u -r1.640 acgeneral.m4
--- acgeneral.m4 2000/11/29 17:57:55 1.640
+++ acgeneral.m4 2000/11/29 18:18:45
@@ -3970,13 +3970,17 @@
 # If the user did not use the arguments to specify the items to instantiate,
 # then the envvar interface is used.  Set only those that are not.
 if $ac_need_defaults; then
-m4_ifset([AC_LIST_FILES], [  : ${CONFIG_FILES=$config_files}
+m4_ifset([AC_LIST_FILES],
+[  CONFIG_FILES=${CONFIG_FILES="$config_files"}
 ])dnl
-m4_ifset([AC_LIST_HEADERS], [  : ${CONFIG_HEADERS=$config_headers}
+m4_ifset([AC_LIST_HEADERS],
+[  CONFIG_HEADERS=${CONFIG_HEADERS="$config_headers"}
 ])dnl
-m4_ifset([AC_LIST_LINKS], [  : ${CONFIG_LINKS=$config_links}
+m4_ifset([AC_LIST_LINKS],
+[  CONFIG_LINKS=${CONFIG_LINKS="$config_links"}
 ])dnl
-m4_ifset([AC_LIST_COMMANDS], [  : ${CONFIG_COMMANDS=$config_commands}
+m4_ifset([AC_LIST_COMMANDS],
+[  CONFIG_COMMANDS=${CONFIG_COMMANDS="$config_commands"}
 ])dnl
 fi