Re: automake (GNU automake) 1.10.1 9 of 538 tests failed

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Rainer,

* Rainer Tammer wrote on Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 01:47:48PM CEST:
> this is ragarding the AIX ranlib command...
> 
> > AIX ranlib is simply a Korn shell script with lack of quoting
> > (and a trivial one, too, BTW).  Oh well.  If you happen to have
> > a support contract with IBM, would you be so nice and file an
> > error report with them about this?  This patch would fix it:
[...]
> Maybe I do not get it but I think this does not fix the problem of
> ranlib....

Ouch.  You're right.  I overlooked the
| set -- `/usr/bin/getopt tX: $*`

earlier in the ranlib script.  That line, but also the getopt output,
are not suitable for arguments with special characters like space.
Oh well.

Cheers, and thanks for the feedback,
Ralf