Re: autoconf choking on paths containing comma

[Earnie Boyd]

Sascha Silbe wrote:
> 
>  EB> Yes it is.  Change your path names.
> That's a very narrow attitude. "If autoconf does not work for you, your 
> environment is broken". I'm glad not everyone thinks this way.
> The solution is as simple as obvious and used everywhere else: Quote data if 
> it could contain special characters that would be misinterpreted otherwise.
> Fortunately, autoconf is not used by anything critical, so this bug it cannot 
> be abused.
> 

Patches to do as you say in a portable fashion with a variety of various
sed implementations and a variety of various sh implementations would be
considered.

Earnie.