Greetings Autoconfers.
As far back as I can remember, when you run
./configure FOO="bar baz yow" --prefix=/tmp/somewhere
it shows up in the first few lines of config.log as
$ ./configure FOO=bar baz yow --prefix=/tmp/somewhere
Which means that if you want to cut-n-paste the exact configure string
that was used to run configure, you have to go manually insert the
quotes before executing it.
Is there any chance of getting autoconf to quote the full FOO token in
config.log? I realize that the shell strips out the quotes by the
time autoconf gets the argv; autoconf would have to detect that there
is whitespace in a token and insert quotes manually when writing
config.log.
This is a minor nit, but it is something that has been around for
years and is somewhat annoying, for example, if we set CFLAGS to a
multi-token value when running configure.
Thanks!
--
Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems
