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Re: libstdc++ configure time
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 02:21:10AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> Of course, if the string is a literal, you can get m4 to do the
> transformation for you ...
Which is what I've been doing.
> ... but sometimes you don't have a string literal.
That's true, I hadn't considered shell variables expanding
to echo meta characters. Well, I think that's rare enough
that we can stand to outlaw it for normal practice. Certainly
it doesn't happen in *any* of the cases that GCC needs.
For the general case it might do to have the "" quoting version
of the file creation macro check a global variable and fall back
to here documents if it is set.
r~