Re: mkinstalldirs: directory names with embedded whitespace or newlines

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,
  now I can answer my own mail  ;-)

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 02:21:37PM +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> > +export PATH
> 
> There is no need to call export again, you have already exported it
> in the outer shell.

yes, the export has to be there, because of the bug documented in the
Autoconf manual, which Alexandre pasted to his previous reply.

Only this remains:

> > +case "$*" in
... 
> There is no word-splitting of the argument of "case", so you don't
> have to quote $*.

but there is no need to waste electrons on this.

Stepan