Re: How to get autom4te to stop stripping trailing spaces

[Nicholas Wourms]

Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Autoconf 2.57 to generate a script which uses a test which 
> involves precise comparision of objdump output against a known base. 
> Unfortunately, the known output contains trailing spaces, which seem to 
> get stripped when autom4te runs on it.  Well, I consulted the info pages 
> and it suggested quotation as the answer, so I popped a set of [] around 
> the trailing spaces.  When generating the configure script, autom4te 
> removes the quotes (expected), but it still strips the quoted whitespace 
> (unexpected).  What is the proper way to quote trailing whitespace in 
> autoconf templates?

Never mind, I figured it out.  Adding @&t@ to the end of the trailing 
whitespace worked for me.

Cheers,
Nicholas