Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Oct 25, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>>>>>> "Daniele" == Daniele Arena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Daniele> This one seemed to be working better... At least it gave no
Daniele> errors on exit and it did create a Makefile. Hope it's fixed?

> OK, then the problem is that your shell is bad at following escaped
> quotes.

>   ac_file_inputs=`IFS=:
[snip]
>          test -f "$f" || { echo "configure: error: cannot find input file \\\`$f'" 
>>&2; exit 1; }

I don't think a shell is required to do it.  Remember the problem I
had told you about:

     foo="`something with a "quote" mark`"
in which ^ this would match ^ this?

This is just another instance of the same problem, with a different
quote mark.

Maybe we should set ac_backquote and ac_singlequote upfront, and use
it in error messages instead?

> Maybe we should go to using `read'

What do you mean?  In what sense would this help?

> Is xargs portable?

Nope.

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