On Friday 17 February 2006 1:12 pm, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > pwd_curdir="`$1`" > > pwd_srcdir="`cd $srcdir && $1`" > > The double quotes are not necessary here.
Not just unnecessary, but positively harmful. Several shells will fail to parse this correctly, *including* the MSYS version of bash. See: https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=14306922 https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=14354463 > `pwd' may not support `-W' either. `pwd -W' is an MSYS extension, (it displays the native MS-Windows path, rather than the POSIX style favoured by MSYS). Some shells will simply ignore it, (e.g. `sh' on SunOS-5); others treat it as an error, (e.g. `bash' other than in MSYS, Cygwin's `ash'). Regards, Keith. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
