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diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi index 8e563bf8..4b90debb 100644 --- a/doc/autoconf.texi +++ b/doc/autoconf.texi @@ -1890,7 +1890,7 @@ distribution tar ball names (e.g., @samp{autoconf}). It defaults to other than alphanumerics and underscores are changed to @samp{-}. If provided, @var{url} should be the home page for the package. -The arguments of @code{AC_INIT} must be static, i.e., there should not +All the arguments of @code{AC_INIT} must be static, i.e., there should not be any shell computation, quotes, or newlines, but they can be computed by M4. This is because the package information strings are expanded at M4 time into several contexts, and must give the same text at shell time @@ -1901,6 +1901,11 @@ that changes with every commit to a version control system (in fact, Autoconf does just that, for all builds of the development tree made between releases). +The @var{tarname} argument is used to construct filenames. +In addition to being static, it should not contain wildcard +characters, white space, or anything else that could be troublesome +as part of a file or directory name. + The following M4 macros (e.g., @code{AC_PACKAGE_NAME}), output variables (e.g., @code{PACKAGE_NAME}), and preprocessor symbols (e.g., @code{PACKAGE_NAME}), are defined by @code{AC_INIT}: |