Yes, the same occurs with autoconf 2.69 (tested on MacOSX 10.9.2).
While I entirely agree with your sentiments about use of characters
like apostrophes in folder names, I met this as the developer/distributor
of the (free) software. The problem was encountered by one of my
users, who was trying
On 05/13/2014 01:08 AM, Brendan McKay wrote:
> Apologies if this is a known bug.
>
> Autoconf 2.65: If the path to the current directory has a component with
> an apostrophe in it, an erroneous line is written to config.status.
Can you reproduce this with autoconf 2.69?
In general, having an un
Apologies if this is a known bug.
Autoconf 2.65: If the path to the current directory has a component with
an apostrophe in it, an erroneous line is written to config.status.
Example: ac_pwd='/home/user/dir/X's '
You can see there is a naked apostrophe that prematurely terminates the
