Hi Richard,
I did not see any mention of this issue in the manual or existing bug
reports. Please let me know if I overlooked something.
Pretty sure you haven't overlooked anything. Don't recall seeing
any mention of this before.
I will send a patch adding test cases as soon as I know what this
bug's number will be.
79266, evidently.
I am willing to propose patches to fix this;
Thanks much!
a pointer to where in the code this bug lives would be appreciated.
I took a quick look at bin/automake.in for regexps using %,
searching for "s/.*%". The one that looks suspicious to me is around
line 6966, in the fn preprocess_file:
# Substitute Automake template tokens.
s/(?: % \?? [\w\-]+ %
| \? !? [\w\-]+ \?
)/transform($&, %transform)/gex;
which looks like it's replacing more or less any word chars between two
% (or ?) signs with the result of calling the (passed) transform fn.
What exactly these "templates" and "transformations" are about, I'm
afraid I have no good idea. We'll have to dig in ... I hope you can, as
it will be a couple weeks (at best) before I can take any serious look
at the code.
Thanks again,
Karl
