configure script: --enable-unregisterised default printed incorrectly

The help text for the --enable-unregisterised flag to configure renders incorrectly. Instead of printing the actual default, it instead prints the name of the variable holding the default:

  --enable-unregisterised Build an unregisterised compiler (enabled by default
                          on platforms without registerised support)
                          [default="$UnregisterisedDefault"]

This happens because the help text is generated via a call to the AC_HELP_STRING macro:

AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-unregisterised],
[Build an unregisterised compiler (enabled by default on platforms without registerised support) [default="$UnregisterisedDefault"]])

According to the autoconf documentation, "the second argument of AS_HELP_STRING is treated as a whitespace separated list of text to be reformatted, and is not subject to macro expansion." (https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Pretty-Help-Strings.html) - hence why the name of the variable is included in the output instead of its value.

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Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
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