Re: Quadrigraphs and tracing

[Peter Eisentraut]

Akim Demaille writes:

> Actually, a bit of both: I was afraid of clashes, in particular with
> the $@ output.  So it seemed better to leave the quadrigraphs as are.

Hmm.  If there were indeed a chance of clashing with things like $@, then
it'd also be present when generating the real 'configure' output.  So I
cannot quite imagine how this would be of concern.

> I tend to think it depends on the actual use.  What is yours?

I'm trying to generate Makefile.in snippets, using

autoconf -t 'AC_SUBST:$1 = @$1@' | sort -u

This works OK, except for LIB@&address@hidden

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