Re: [patch] allow --with-pic to accept package names

[Eric Blake]

On 10/22/2010 03:02 PM, Peter Rosin wrote:
> There is never any need to quote the right-hand side of assignments,
> unless you have literal whitespace in them.  If you do
>    a=foo; b="  bar"; c=$a$b; d=$c
> both $c and $d will be "foo  bar".
>
> See 'Shell Substitutions' in the 'Portable Shell' chapter in the
> autoconf manual.

In fact, there's sometimes a requirement that you must NOT quote the 
right-hand side of assignments if you care about portability to buggy 
shells:

a="`echo "b  c"`"

is non-portable, but

a=`echo "b  c"`

reliably assigns "b  c" to $a in all shells.

> I just stated tangential info since the problematic
> quoting needed fixing, and since that is fixed I don't see any need
> to do a re-spin just because of this.

Agreed.

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