Re: texi2dvi: fix support for whitespace in working directory

[Mattias Andrée]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 22:35:36 +0100
Gavin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 25 April 2016 at 21:31, Mattias Andrée
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Fix support for whitespace in working directory.
> >
> > Keep me CC:ed, I'm not subscribed to the mailing-list.  
> 
> I don't think this change does anything?

But it does, at least with GNU Bash as my sh.
After adding this change I was able to compile my document.
However, I am almost certain this was not an issue before.

> 
> Reference
> http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Shell-Substitutions
> 
> "...the Bourne shell does not systematically split
> variables and back-quoted expressions, in particular on
> the right-hand side of assignments and in the argument of
> case."
> 
> although it is easy to forget.

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