Re: [patch] More path-handling tweaking

[Akim Demaille]

| Added better path/filename support in several places.

This patch seems good to me, and I intend to apply it, but:

2001-03-29      Tim Van Holder <address@hidden>

        * acgeneral.m4: Don't set as_me; AS_SHELL_SANITIZE
        now does this.

We wrap at 76 or so, but here

        * acgeneral.m4: Don't set as_me; AS_SHELL_SANITIZE now does this.

        * autoconf.sh: Be DOS-friendly when setting as_me
        and M4.  Add quotes to support spaces in $tmp. Work
        around problem in DJGPP port of awk by using a
        temporary file.

Mixed feelings about this, I don't want to pollute maintainer side
tools.  But given that I plan to move it to Perl anyway (to be debated
of course, but I doubt that in 2001 one would really be against using
Perl for Autoconf), it won't last, so it's OK.

        * autoheader.sh: Be DOS-friendly when setting as_me.
        * autoreconf.sh: Be DOS-friendly when setting as_me,
        dir and template_dir.
        * m4sh.m4: Set as_me in AS_SHELL_SANITIZE, using
        AS_BASENAME.  AS_BASENAME: new macro.  Fix typo.

This entry is not correct:

        * m4sh.m4: Set as_me in AS_SHELL_SANITIZE, using
        AS_BASENAME.  AS_BASENAME: new macro.  Fix typo.

        * m4sh.m4 (AS_BASENAME): New.
        (AS_SHELL_SANITIZE): Define `$as_me'.

Similarly for:

        * tests/atgeneral.m4: Don't set as_me;
        AS_SHELL_SANITIZE now does this.  Use $PATH_SEPARATOR
        for walking the path.


Also, please don't use -e for sed when useless.  I'm applying your patch.