>> A question remains, why do the configure flags need to be a quoted list ? > > It’s a list of arguments that gets passed to a function down the road.
but as the list of arguments is already in a quoted list, it is quoted and not interpreted here. '(toto (titi)) => (toto (titi)) and not an error telling titi is unbound variable. '(toto '(titi)) => (toto (quote (titi))) there's an additional quote level... -- Vincent Legoll