Absoft Define quotes problem

[Enrico Ng]

I am new to AutoConf and am running into a problem with absoft.

Autoconf (or Automake) adds in defs
like  -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\"

The problem is that it uses the \" instead of just a " or no quote.

Absoft seems to have a problem with these because when I try to compile
it will say:

usage: f77 [options] files
       type man f77 for further details.

but if I take out all the \" characters, then it will compile fine.

Is there a Absoft flag I can use or something in autoconf (or automake)
I can use to prevent this from happening?

Thanx,

Enrico Ng <address@hidden>