Re: ampersand in path name

2012-08-01 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/31/2012 01:36 PM, K Richard Pixley wrote: > I ran into a problem with an autoconf generated configure script today. > The problem is that the path to srcdir includes an ampersand, (several, > actually). This confuses the sed "s" commands which are written as > "s&$foo&$bar&$baz" as once th

ampersand in path name

2012-07-31 Thread K Richard Pixley
I ran into a problem with an autoconf generated configure script today. The problem is that the path to srcdir includes an ampersand, (several, actually). This confuses the sed "s" commands which are written as "s&$foo&$bar&$baz" as once they are variable expanded, they look like "s&x&&y&z&&