Re: automake 1.8.3 patches for OS/2

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 03:17:22PM +0200, Andreas Buening wrote:
> --- old/automake-1.8.3/configure.ac     Sun Mar  7 17:03:14 2004
> +++ gnu/automake-1.8.3/configure.ac     Sat Apr 10 14:43:18 2004
> @@ -54,8 +54,8 @@
>
>  # $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL are always run after a `cd $top_srcdir',
>  # hence `.' is really what we want for perllibdir, libdir, and acdir.
> -ACLOCAL="perllibdir=`pwd`/lib:./lib `pwd`/aclocal --acdir=m4"
> -AUTOMAKE="perllibdir=`pwd`/lib:./lib `pwd`/automake --libdir=lib"
> +ACLOCAL="perllibdir=`pwd`\"/lib$PATH_SEPARATOR./lib\" `pwd`/aclocal 
> --acdir=m4"
>
> +AUTOMAKE="perllibdir=`pwd`\"/lib$PATH_SEPARATOR./lib\" `pwd`/automake 
> --libdir=
> lib"

What is the purpose of these inner double-quotes?  I do not understand them.