>>>>> "Assar" == Assar Westerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Assar> A more serious problem is in AS_MKDIR_P. It sets IFS to '\\/'
Assar> and it seems that some sh:s (which are probably really ksh:s)
Assar> will use the first character (backslash) when joining the
Assar> components in "$@" and then re-interpret (!) the backslash
Assar> escapes, so you can end up with backspace and other strange
Assar> characters. And you will end up with directories called
Assar> foo\bar and foo?az and others. Changing the order of the
Assar> separators seems to fix it for me and I don't see that it
Assar> should have any negatives effects. A patch and changelog
Assar> entries for both of these appear below.
Wow, nice tracking! Thanks a lot for the work you do on improving
portability issues etc. Please, don't hesitate commenting the code,
or documenting those shell `features' just as you do in your mail :)
Akim
