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Re: Argument quoting problem when processing config_subdirs


From: Akim Demaille
Subject: Re: Argument quoting problem when processing config_subdirs
Date: 17 Jan 2001 09:40:15 +0100
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>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Van Holder <address@hidden> writes:

Please, don't make private answers about Autoconf.

>> Sorry, please ignore my previous message, it was really stupid.
>> No, more than this actually.  I think this time I understand
>> better.  And it appears to me that only _AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS needs
>> being fixed.  Back to your patch, here are the chunks which make
>> sense to me.  I'd OK a patch (address@hidden) with
>> ChangeLog for them.
Tim> Great!

>> Why do you use ac_sub_cache_opt and sub_srcdir_opt?  Just this
>> seems enough:
>> 
>> + case $ac_sub_srcdir in +[ *" "*|*"
>> "*|*[\[\]\~\#\$\^\&\*\(\)\{\}\\\|\;\<\>\?\"\']*)] +
>> ac_sub_srcdir=`echo "$ac_sub_srcdir" | sed "s/'/'\\\\\\\\''/g"` +
>> esac

Tim> To have the same effect as the argument quoting done by autoconf,
Tim> resulting in '--srcdir=foo\bar' (including the quotes). Note that
Tim> the sed only escapes single quotes; it relies on the result being
Tim> enclosed in single quotes to preserve the other metachars. I'm
Tim> not sure it would be wise to use the above and then always pass
Tim> --srcdir='$ac_sub_srcdir' to the sub-configure, as those quotes
Tim> might break something if used when they're not needed (not sure
Tim> about that though; basically I thought it would be safest to
Tim> stick to the method autoconf currently uses for quoting arguments
Tim> with metachars).

OK, that's a valid point, but currently I see no part of configure
which might depend on this, nor should there be IMHO.



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