Re: AC_INIT regression

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 07/20/2010 12:16 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> At this point, I'm thinking of using AS_LITERAL_HEREDOC_IF plus one
> additional check for "; all other uses of AC_PACKAGE_STRING and friends
> appeared to be inside "", so it's just a documentation matter to mention
> that these strings should be double-quoted for project-generic code
> (such as automake), but an individual project that follows stricter
> rules (such as coreutils version string always being a single shell
> word) can get by with referencing AC_PACKAGE_VERSION outside double quotes.

Considering Automake does

AC_SUBST([VERSION], ['AC_PACKAGE_VERSION'])])

I think that's fine, but since you are at it you should also check for 
single quotes.

Paolo