Hello, * Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 07:10:47PM CEST: > On 08/27/2010 10:30 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >(Just for the record, I found this bug while running the automake > >testsuite with CONFIG_SHELL=dash). > > Out of curiosity, which version of dash? dash 0.5.6 has $LINENO > support, but 0.5.5.1 still lacks it. Shells that lack $LINENO are > getting rarer these days. > > At any rate, even though I just fixed autoconf to avoid the problem > in the first place, you would have to wait until the new autoconf is > widely available enough, so your patch is still worthwhile.
Yes, I agree. The patch is ok for maint. An Autoconf testsuite addition m4_defining all single characters to something and then calling a bunch of Autoconf macros might be fun. Or, not. You really don't want to use maximal quoting everywhere unless forced to. Thanks, Ralf