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Re: Apostrophe in path
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Apostrophe in path |
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Tue, 13 May 2014 06:23:21 -0600 |
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On 05/13/2014 01:08 AM, Brendan McKay wrote:
> Apologies if this is a known bug.
>
> Autoconf 2.65: If the path to the current directory has a component with
> an apostrophe in it, an erroneous line is written to config.status.
Can you reproduce this with autoconf 2.69?
In general, having an unpaired ' in the current working directory is a
recipe for disaster; even if autoconf-generated scripts handle it
gracefully, you WILL have problems with automake, make, and probably
other tools. And even if all the stock toolchains are taught to
generate sane code for a fully-quoted configure.ac, many packages have a
configure.ac that is not fully-quoted. It's one of those situations
where you are better off picking a smarter name for your current working
directory, rather than trying to patch hundreds of packages to work
around your odd corner case.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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