Re: shell quote bug in ax_boost_base

[Jaap Eldering]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 06:49:38PM +0200, Peter Simons wrote:
> Hi Jaap,
> 
> thank you very much for submitting those extensive patches. They are
> applied to the repository now.
> 
> I noticed one thing in ax_boost_base.m4:
> 
>     if test "$(uname -m)" = "x86_64"; then [...]
> 
> The $(...) syntax for running sub-shells is fairly portable, but there
> are old implementations of /bin/sh in use today that don't understand
> it, for instance on Solaris. To avoid any problems, I have added another
> patch that changes the code in the macro. I hope I didn't screw anything
> up. :-)

Hello Peter,

Looks fine to me and still works here... But that's just one platform.

Best,
Jaap