Re: $ in source file names

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> writes:

>> If Automake doesn't support $ in source file names, then I would
>> suggest that it isn't an important requirement for Libtool.

Alexandre> I disagree.  libtool can be used independently from
Alexandre> automake.  And, in fact, until libtool supports correctly
Alexandre> file names containing `$' and line-feeds, I won't be
Alexandre> convinced we do the right thing regarding single-evaluation
Alexandre> of arguments.

And as Alexandre knows, we've already run into problems regarding `$'
in names when testing libgcj.  Java tends to end up with file names
like this due to how inner classes are implemented.

Tom