Re: texi2dvi: fix support for whitespace in working directory

[Mattias Andrée]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 06:45:05 +0900
Norbert Preining <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > "...the Bourne shell does not systematically split
> > variables and back-quoted expressions, in particular on
> > the right-hand side of assignments and in the argument
> > of case."  
> 
> Gavin, texi2dvi starts with
>       /bin/sh
> that means it can be *any* shell including dash (POSIX).
> 
> You cannot expect bash behaviour then.
> 
> Norbert
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Bourne shell is not Bash. However you cannot expect the
implementation to be 100% compliant, people make errors.

Whether my patch fixes an error in texi2dvi or works around
a bug in bash's sh is unimportant. The patch is tiny, does
not decrease maintainability and fixes an error, so there
is no reason not to apply it.

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