On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:29:29AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > $ a='a\b' > > > $ expr "X$a" : 'X\(.*\)' > > > a\b > > > > That's a neat trick, I didn't know it. Is this in the shell > > portability guide? > > No, because some older version of expr can't handle arguments larger > than 120 bytes (this is documented). > > > Note that all --enable, --with, and A=B options are > > passed through echo and sed, at least as of the latest version I have > > installed. > > Yes; autoconf doesn't support \ in file names.
Did you see the separate bit of my message, about _AC_INIT_PREPARE? That means that autoconf doesn't support \ in any arguments whatsoever when using subconfigures. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
