On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:14:39PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Accordingly, I believe that the pattern in your example means > >> "backslash, followed by a, followed by closing square bracket", not what > >> you think it means. > > > > You're quite right. This is reaffirmed by the POSIX document for > > basic regular expressions, which is what POSIX uses to define > > shell patterns. > > > > Therefore tetex-bin and autoconf will need to be fixed instead to > > not use backslashes in [] expressions. > > I read through the entire bug log for 240887 and couldn't figure > out what actual bug in Autoconf is being pointed out. Can anyone > help me out? I can't fix a bug if no one tells me what the bug > is.
configure calls itself in subdirs and tries to pass the same arguments again. In configure there is this code: # Strip out --no-create and --no-recursion so they do not pile # up. # Also quote any args containing shell metacharacters. ac_configure_args= for ac_arg do case "$ac_arg" in -no-create | --no-create | --no-creat | --no-crea | --no-cre \ | --no-cr | --no-c) ;; -no-recursion | --no-recursion | --no-recursio | --no-recursi \ | --no-recurs | --no-recur | --no-recu | --no-rec | --no-re | --no-r) ;; *" "*|*" "*|*[\[\]\~\#\$\^\&\*\(\)\{\}\\\|\;\<\>\?]*) ac_configure_args="$ac_configure_args '$ac_arg'" ;; *) ac_configure_args="$ac_configure_args $ac_arg" ;; esac done Using dash it's not properly requoting '--mandir=${prefix}/share/man', it gets turned into --mandir=${prefix} at the first level and --mandir=/usr/share/man at the next level. Using bash it stays '--mandir=${prefix}/share/man'. I'm not really sure who's to blame for it not working. I think there is atleast a bug in glibc's fnmatch(). That regex might also need fixing. But I really don't know what needs to be done. If I understand Herbert Xu correctly, he's saying the regex should be written as: *[][~#$^&*(){}\|;<>?]* Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]