Use of brackets with autoconf

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi,

I see that we for instance have in "./configure --help":

  --enable-libtool        Use libtool for lib generation default=no
  --with-syslog-facility=LOG_FAC
                          Syslog facility [LOG_NEWS], [or], [LOG_LOCAL1]

instead of:

  --enable-libtool        Use libtool for lib generation [default=no]
  --with-syslog-facility=LOG_FAC
                          Syslog facility [LOG_NEWS or LOG_LOCAL1]


I tried to use double brackets ("[[" and "]]") but it did not work.
I found out what Autoconf calls "quadrigraphs", for instance writing
"@<:@" instead of "[".

That's not very useful to use...
Isn't there a better solution for our mere strings?


Index: m4/syslog.m4
===================================================================
--- m4/syslog.m4        (révision 8572)
+++ m4/syslog.m4        (copie de travail)
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 AC_DEFUN([INN_ARG_SYSLOG],
 [AC_ARG_WITH([syslog-facility],
     [AS_HELP_STRING([--with-syslog-facility=LOG_FAC],
-        [Syslog facility [LOG_NEWS or LOG_LOCAL1]])],
+        [Syslog facility @<:@LOG_NEWS or LOG_LOCAL1@:>@]])],
     SYSLOG_FACILITY=$with_syslog_facility,
     SYSLOG_FACILITY=none)])

Index: configure.ac
===================================================================
--- configure.ac        (révision 8572)
+++ configure.ac        (copie de travail)
@@ -85,11 +85,12 @@
 dnl setup macros if they do.  Keep this call together with the libtool setup
 dnl so that the arguments to configure will be together in configure --help.
 inn_use_libtool=no
-AC_ARG_ENABLE(libtool,
-    [  --enable-libtool        Use libtool for lib generation [default=no]],
-    if test "$enableval" = yes ; then
+AC_ARG_ENABLE([libtool],
+    [AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-libtool],
+        [Use libtool for lib generation @<:@default=no@:>@])],
+    [if test x"$enableval" = xyes ; then
         inn_use_libtool=yes
-    fi)
+    fi])
 if test x"$inn_use_libtool" = xyes ; then
     LT_INIT
     EXTLIB='la'


-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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