Re: texi2dvi: fix support for whitespace in working directory

[Mattias Andrée]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 09:53:18 +0200
Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:

> Mattias Andrée <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Whether my patch fixes an error in texi2dvi or works
> > around a bug in bash's sh is unimportant. The patch is
> > tiny, does not decrease maintainability  
> 
> Adding unnecessary quotes without justification decreases
> maintainability because everyone who looks at it has to
> think hard about why the useless quotes are there.
> 
> > and fixes an error,  
> 
> Which error?  You didn't give any hints what this fixes.

It creates splits the path at white space, and trys
to create all results paths, as directories, successful
with the first but fails with the rest of course. As
a result script fails.

> 
> Andreas.
>

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