Re: [Bug-tar] bug in bootstrap

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

> Also, in the eval that parses .bootstrap, "set --" is nonportable
> (use "set dummy; shift" instead), and the eval is not robust to
> characters special to the shell in $* (for example, you
> have broken ./bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir='dir with space').

Not quite so. This form works, provided that it is properly quoted
(--gnulib-srcdir="dir with space")

Regards,
Sergey