m4 quoting fixlet

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ec911b4a98d0e138ea08ff0953955b8883583053..42288d53569109e30eb7d7b9373214adb44c8303 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Thu Sep 18 19:43:38 1997  Tom Tromey  <tromey@cygnus.com>
+
+       * m4/sanity.m4: Quote "$@" for m4.  From Gord Matzigkeit.
+
 Mon Sep  1 23:50:38 1997  Tom Tromey  <tromey@cygnus.com>
 
        * automake.in (handle_texinfo): Set need_texi_file only when

diff --git a/m4/sanity.m4 b/m4/sanity.m4
index 9cb2827eda05848b6ba5d89db34d417dc8c65408..5e3b26ddea0266c824ef901361bb96c7c758e551 100644 (file)
--- a/m4/sanity.m4
+++ b/m4/sanity.m4
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ echo timestamp > conftestfile
 # directory).
 if (
    set X `ls -Lt $srcdir/configure conftestfile 2> /dev/null`
-   if test "$@" = "X"; then
+   if test "[$]@" = "X"; then
       # -L didn't work.
       set X `ls -t $srcdir/configure conftestfile`
    fi