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Re: autoconf choking on paths containing comma
From: |
Earnie Boyd |
Subject: |
Re: autoconf choking on paths containing comma |
Date: |
Sat, 27 Apr 2002 13:52:51 -0400 |
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.