Re: shell wrapper bug exists in 1.4.3, too

[Kevin Ryde]

Bruce Korb <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Next step is CVS, but meanwhile, this is the command line
> in the failing shell script:
>
>   exec $program ${1+"$@"}

I'm not sure I understand the full circumstances, but perhaps it's the
dodgy word splitting in zsh described in the autoconf manual "Shell
Substitutions".

I encountered a problem with this construct on an ancient bash
recently too, where ${1+"$@"} came out as an empty argument, rather
than nothing (the same as "$@" is well-known to do).

Autoconf suggests testing $#,

          case $# in
          0) something ;;
          *) something "$@";;
          esac