Re: autoconf choking on paths containing comma

[Sascha Silbe]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 11:56:54AM -0400, Earnie Boyd [EB] wrote:

 EB> The autoconf team chose to use a comma `,' character in the sed command 
because they reasoned that most persons wouldn't have path names with commas.
Most, but not all.

 EB> Yes it is.  Change your path names.
That's a very narrow attitude. "If autoconf does not work for you, your 
environment is broken". I'm glad not everyone thinks this way.
The solution is as simple as obvious and used everywhere else: Quote data if it 
could contain special characters that would be misinterpreted otherwise.
Fortunately, autoconf is not used by anything critical, so this bug it cannot 
be abused.

CU/Lnx Sascha

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