<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.26.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 10:50 -0800, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> How do I quote []s in m4? I've tried escaping with \, 's, "s, ... I'm out of tricks... I'm trying to update the poll() checks in libxcb and libXt to allow poll on darwin11, but the []s are getting stripped. darwin[789]* is becoming darwin789*, and the $[^ ]*$ in sed is becoming $^ *$ ... </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Check this out: <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Quadrigraphs">http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Quadrigraphs</A> It is used in a few modules, I am not sure if this will solve the problem, I am not an expert but it's worth a look. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Here's what I want to do: case $host_os in # darwin through Snow Leopard has poll() but can't be used to poll character devices. darwin[789]*|darwin10*) ;; darwin*) _ac_xorg_macosx_version_min=`echo $CPPFLAGS $CFLAGS | sed 's/^.*-mmacosx-version-min=$[^ ]*$.*$/\1/'` if test x$_ac_xorg_macosx_version_min = x ; then _ac_xorg_macosx_version_min=$MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET fi case $_ac_xorg_macosx_version_min in 10.[0123456]|10.[0123456].*) ;; *) AC_CHECK_FUNC(poll, [AC_DEFINE(USE_POLL, 1, [poll() function is available])], ) ;; esac unset _ac_xorg_macosx_version_min ;; *) AC_CHECK_FUNC(poll, [AC_DEFINE(USE_POLL, 1, [poll() function is available])], ) ;; esac _______________________________________________ <A HREF="mailto:xorg-devel@lists.x.org">xorg-devel@lists.x.org</A>: X.Org development Archives: <A HREF="http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel">http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel</A> Info: <A HREF="http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel">http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel</A> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>