Re: echo "enhancement" leads to confused legacy script tools...

[Linda W]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Henrik Nordstrom <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > sön 2006-03-19 klockan 12:57 -0800 skrev Paul Eggert:
> >
> > > Autoconf deals with shells that do not conform to XSI, and where the
> > > results are implementation-defined if there's a backslash anywhere in
> > > the string, so to some extent this point is moot for Autoconf (though
> > > it's undeniably a portability problem, one that is documented in the
> > > Autoconf manual under "Limitations of Builtins").
> > I thought so too, but in this case it is a autoconf 2.57 output which is
> > failing, ending up with a lot of control characters instead of the
> > expected sed backreferences..
>
> Autoconf 2.57 is pretty old.  Do you have the same problem with 2.59?
> If not, then the problem's solved from the Autoconf point of view.
> Otherwise, I'd ask you to try it with CVS Autoconf (which has further
> fixes in this area).
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        I already have 2.59 installed on my system, "2.59-80.1" from
SuSE9.3.  So it was with 2.59 autoconf that I originally ran into the
problem.

Linda