The following reply was made to PR config/5303; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Ralf S. Engelschall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Subject: Re: config/5303: Shell metacharacters in string returned by
GuessOS
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 12:26:02 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>>Number: 5303
>>Category: config
>>Synopsis: Shell metacharacters in string returned by GuessOS
> [...]
> ===== If GuessOS returns shell metacharacters, configure incorporates these
> ===== in pathnames, which causes "make" to generate bad syntax in shell
> commands.
> [...]
> -echo "${MACHINE}-whatever-${SYSTEM}|${RELEASE}|${VERSION}"
> +echo "${MACHINE}-whatever-${SYSTEM}-${RELEASE}-${VERSION}"
Thanks for catching this. It's now fixed for Apache 1.3.10. But not by using
a minus instead of a pipe char. Instead I used a comma, because a minus is the
meta-char in GuessOS's output (the output has to be a minus-separated
_triple_).
Ralf S. Engelschall
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.engelschall.com
