Hello, On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 12:55:38PM +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote: > I have another solution for the problem of multiline substitutions
first, let me sum up the problem: If you use AC_SUBST([FOO], ["foo bar"]) in your configure.ac, then Automake traces it, and puts FOO = @FOO@ to each Makefile.in. No doubt the generated makefile will be broken. Proposed solution: ------------------ Automake could generate lines like this: FOO = @FOO@@\n@ The magical tag, @\n@, would be handled by Autoconf: 1) if the line after substitution contains embedded newlines, then each of them is escaped with a backslash; 2) if the line after substitution would end by a backslash, then a space character would be appended. What do you think? Have a nice day, Stepan