Ralf Angeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> After this line and before the next echo statement in the configure
> script there are some while loops. Perhaps those are a problem. Here
> is one of them:
>
> while :;do case "$tmpdir" in *\$*) __ac_tmp__='s/[\`"-"]/\\&/g'
> eval "tmpdir=`sed ${__ac_tmp__} <<EOF
> $tmpdir
> EOF
> `";; *) break ;; esac; done
>
> Do you perhaps know if such a construct is supported by your shell?
> (Frankly I am not an expert here.) Also, is sed installed?
Well, the construct loops while there is a $ in "$tmpdir". It breaks
out of the loop when there isn't. That's quite straightforward. The
sed command replaces the three characters \ ` " with \ followed by the
characters. That gives an additional level of quoting which the eval
(which is there for expanding $ until none is left) then strips again.
It would be interesting to see what happens on the system where it
fails. One thing that might help is writing
's/[\\`"-"]/
instead, doubling the initial \ in case sed misinterprets the range (I
am not sure why we have "-" instead of just ", probably to stop syntax
highlighting from going complete bonkers).
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
_______________________________________________
bug-auctex mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-auctex
