Re: shell quote bug in ax_boost_base

[Jaap Eldering]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 03:17:53PM +0200, Peter Simons wrote:
> Hi Jaap,
> 
>  > I found a bug of an underquoted shell variable in ax_boost_base.m4,
>  > see the attached patch.
> 
> your patch has been applied in the following revision:
> 
>   
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf-archive.git/commit/?id=d4f410db4615b266af4f6b1953aa739123ed62c3
> 
> Thank you very much for the submission.

No problem, thanks for patching.

>  > I also noticed that this script fails to automatically find the
>  > default boost installation under the Debian amd64 architecture,
>  > because the libraries are in /usr/lib and not in /usr/lib64.
> 
> Can you, by any chance, come up with a fix for this problem, too?

I'll have a look, but I'm not proficient in M4sh so someone certainly
will have to review it for correctness and cleanliness.

Best,
Jaap