Re: Mangled argument vector choking on spaces?

[Paul Eggert]

David A. Wheeler wrote:
> E.g. when using AC_CHECK_PROG to search for "sbcl", the generated makefile 
> would say:
> SBCL = sbcl

That's easy to do without changing Autoconf.  Put this in configure.ac:

AC_CHECK_PROG([SBCL], [sbcl], [sbcl], [false])

and this in Makefile:

SBCL = @SBCL@

Unfortunately, one often needs the absolute file name of the command, and that's 
where the problem lies.