Re: zsh.diff

[Peter O'Gorman]

On Saturday, April 5, 2003, at 07:19  AM, Kevin Ryde wrote:

> "Peter O'Gorman" <address@hidden> writes:
> > -      eval "lt_$var=\\\"\`\$echo \"X\$$var\" | \$Xsed -e 
> > \"\$sed_quote_subst\"\`\\\""
> > +      eval "lt_$var=\"\\\"\`\$echo \"X\$$var\" | \$Xsed -e 
> > \"\$sed_quote_subst\"\`\\\"\""
>
> The autoconf manual at the top of the "Shell Substitutions" node says
> forms like
>
>         x="`foo "xyz" bar`"
>
> are not portable.  Is that what the eval above will end up doing?

Yes, but... it works dammit :-)

Can anyone actually find a real live shell where this patch does not 
work?

In the meantime, I can put the zsh echo test in around this line, and 
make the extra \"'s dependent on the (broken?) zsh behavior.

Thanks,
Peter