| autoconf handles AC_CONFIG_FILES($foo) properly.
But I should say it is not recommended! The documentation asks for literals whenever it is possible. | A plain invocation of "automake" rightly complains that it has no idea what | it needs to look at, but running "automake (some list of Makefiles)" | produces: | | configure.ac: 23: required file `./$foo.in' not found | | which seems wrong. If automake is called with explicit filename arguments | it should ignore (or not complain) about variables in AC_CONFIG_FILES. What is this $foo? Don't you need to EXTRA_DIST it somewhere? I'm asking the question because precisely, if you move to case $foo in bar) AC_CONFIG_FILES(bar) ;; foo) AC_CONFIG_FILES(foo) ;; baz) AC_CONFIG_FILES(baz) ;; esac is what Autoconf recommends, and it would solve more of your problems, wouldn't it? I _insist_, I'm asking you to change your code: I'm (i) asking for details to understand your needs, and (ii) _suggesting_ an alternative.
