On 11/21/2011 07:47 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > I like to name temporary directories that I will remove shortly > with two leading commas so that they sort lexicographically at > the top of `ls' output. Now, `./configure > --prefix=`pwd`/,,inst' works again, for the first time in > several years.
> Try to use `|' as the default separator wherever possible, > otherwise something else that doesn't occur in the substitution > expression. I'm in favor of this one. In particular, one of the reasons that autoconf documents | as superior to , is that | has to be shell-quoted to be used, while , does not, which means a user is more likely to have a filename containing comma than they are to have a filename containing a pipe. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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