Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite

[Akim Demaille]

| On Oct 25, 2000, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:
| >>>>>> "Daniele" == Daniele Arena <address@hidden> writes:
| Daniele> This one seemed to be working better... At least it gave no
| Daniele> errors on exit and it did create a Makefile. Hope it's fixed?
| 
| > OK, then the problem is that your shell is bad at following escaped
| > quotes.
| 
| >   ac_file_inputs=`IFS=:
| [snip]
| >          test -f "$f" || { echo "configure: error: cannot find input file 
\\\`$f'" >&2; exit 1; }
| 
| I don't think a shell is required to do it.  Remember the problem I
| had told you about:
| 
|      foo="`something with a "quote" mark`"
| in which ^ this would match ^ this?

Yeah, I know this guy!  Andreas Schwab sent a huge patch IIRC :)

| This is just another instance of the same problem, with a different
| quote mark.

Agreed.  Nevertheless this is the first shell that triggers the
problem, while it's been in Autoconf since quite a while now.

| Maybe we should set ac_backquote and ac_singlequote upfront, and use
| it in error messages instead?

Why not.  That's hacky, but that's a way out :)

| > Maybe we should go to using `read'
| 
| What do you mean?  In what sense would this help?

I meant still keeping a for-echo loop, but using `read' outside.

| > Is xargs portable?
| 
| Nope.

:(