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* Rodney Sparapani (2008-06-11) writes:
> Well, I'm using XPG4 standard Bourne shell and sed, so I think I'm all
> right. But, that code looks to me like an infinite loop. I added echos and
> it really is an infinite loop which would explain what I'm seeing here.
>
> What do you get if you do this:
> 2701...
> echo "1. $tmpdir" >&6;
>
> #while :; do
> case "$tmpdir" in *\$*) __ac_tmp__='s/[\`"-"]/\\&/g'
> eval "tmpdir=`sed ${__ac_tmp__} <<EOF
> $tmpdir
> EOF
> `";; *) break ;; esac;
> #done
>
> echo "2. $tmpdir" >&6;
>
> exit
>
> I get:
> 1. ${localstatedir}/auctex
> 2. \$\{\l\o
I get, somewhat surprising, this:
1. ${localstatedir}/auctex
2. ${prefix}/var/auctex
--
Ralf
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