Eric Blake wrote:
even in the C locale, libtool has switched from `' to '' quoting, so a regex looking for ASCII backtick as the leading quote character fails to match the new diagnostics.
That regex looks for [`'] so it should work with the new libtool behavior in the C locale.
Putting curved quotes into the scripts would be dicey in picky locales that lack curved quotes, as the shell scripts themelves wouldn't conform to POSIX.