@example
~/amhello % @kbd{cat README}
This is a demonstration package for GNU Automake.
-Type `info Automake' to read the Automake manual.
+Type 'info Automake' to read the Automake manual.
@end example
@item
@example
~/amhello % @kbd{autoreconf --install}
-configure.ac: installing `./install-sh'
-configure.ac: installing `./missing'
-src/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp'
+configure.ac: installing './install-sh'
+configure.ac: installing './missing'
+src/Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
@end example
At this point the build system is complete.
% @kbd{cat Makefile.am}
$(FOO:=x): bar
% @kbd{automake}
-Makefile.am:1: bad characters in variable name `$(FOO'
-Makefile.am:1: `:='-style assignments are not portable
+Makefile.am:1: bad characters in variable name '$(FOO'
+Makefile.am:1: ':='-style assignments are not portable
@end example
@cindex Make targets, overriding
Therefore, when Automake detects this situation it will complain
with a message such as
@example
-object `foo.$(OBJEXT)' created both with libtool and without
+object 'foo.$(OBJEXT)' created both with libtool and without
@end example
A workaround for this issue is to ensure that these two objects get
@example
AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = \
## Some environment initializations are kept in a separate shell
-## file `tests-env.sh', which can make it easier to also run tests
+## file 'tests-env.sh', which can make it easier to also run tests
## from the command line.
. $(srcdir)/tests-env.sh; \
## On Solaris, prefer more POSIX-compliant versions of the standard
such script, save its output in a corresponding @file{.log} file and
its results (and other ``metadata'', @pxref{API for Custom Test Drivers})
in a corresponding @file{.trs} (as in @b{T}est @b{R}e@b{S}ults) file.
-@c We choose the `.trs' extension also because, at the time of writing,
+@c We choose the '.trs' extension also because, at the time of writing,
@c it isn't already used for other significant purposes; see e.g.:
@c - http://filext.com/file-extension/trs
@c - http://www.file-extensions.org/search/?searchstring=trs