Hi Jim, * Jim Meyering wrote on Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 09:02:51PM CET: > [ along the way I noticed that my gnulib-tool patch is wrong, > since single quotes in the context of a Makefile dependency > list are interpreted literally ]
Indeed. > But I did find a bug to fix... in automake. > While $(top_srcdir) values usually look like ../src, > but sometimes they are full, absolute names. It's the latter > case I was trying to protect against with the gnulib-tool patch. > > For the record, you can cause trouble by building with a > source directory name containing e.g., a space, and invoking > configure via an absolute name. Been there before, tried to push the exact patch you propose. It doesn't help but cover up. If the corresponding code complains, the user used a path he shouldn't have used. "Don't do that when it hurts." It would be an improvement if the sanity.m4 code produced a more helpful error, though. Cheers, Ralf
