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commit 6c2fe4a197faad6b1feb532c805562e25a0b9a24
Author: Eric Blake <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Aug 17 08:17:36 2010 -0600

    doc: improve AS_VAR_IF details
    
    * doc/autoconf.texi (Polymorphic Variables) <AS_VAR_IF>: Make it
    clear that user must supply quotes as needed.
    * THANKS: Update.
    Suggested by Randall Cotton.
    
    Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <[email protected]>

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Summary of changes:
 ChangeLog         |    8 ++++++++
 THANKS            |    1 +
 doc/autoconf.texi |    7 ++++---
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fbc69db..2ce085b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2010-08-17  Eric Blake  <[email protected]>
+
+	doc: improve AS_VAR_IF details
+	* doc/autoconf.texi (Polymorphic Variables) <AS_VAR_IF>: Make it
+	clear that user must supply quotes as needed.
+	* THANKS: Update.
+	Suggested by Randall Cotton.
+
 2010-08-16  Ralf Wildenhues  <[email protected]>
 
 	Fix Autotest --errexit to exit after XPASSing tests.
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 3b23589..8f2691e 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ Ralf Corsepius              [email protected]
 Ralf Menzel                 [email protected]
 Ralf S. Engelschall         [email protected]
 Ralf Wildenhues             [email protected]
+Randall Cotton              [email protected]
 Reuben Thomas               [email protected]
 Richard Dawe                [email protected]
 Richard Stallman            [email protected]
diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index 05705f2..9d29b9c 100644
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -13491,12 +13491,13 @@ done
 @comment AS_VAR_GET is intentionally undocumented; it can't handle
 @comment trailing newlines uniformly, and forks too much.
 
-@defmac AS_VAR_IF (@var{var}, @ovar{value}, @ovar{if-equal}, @
+@defmac AS_VAR_IF (@var{var}, @ovar{word}, @ovar{if-equal}, @
   @ovar{if-not-equal})
 @asindex{VAR_IF}
 Output a shell conditional statement.  If the contents of the
-polymorphic shell variable @var{var} match the string @var{value},
-execute @var{if-equal}; otherwise execute @var{if-not-equal}.  Avoids
+polymorphic shell variable @var{var} match the string @var{word},
+execute @var{if-equal}; otherwise execute @var{if-not-equal}.  @var{word}
+must be a single shell word (typically a quoted string).  Avoids
 shell bugs if an interrupt signal arrives while a command substitution
 in @var{var} is being expanded.
 @end defmac


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