Re: 18-bugs.patch

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Nov 13, 2000, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:

> | There's also the problem of having cached variables containing the `}'
> | character, that breaks with Solaris' /bin/sh.  I don't know whether
> | this is a ``grave bug'', though :-)

> About this bug, does it happen whenever there is a non balanced `}',
> or as soon as a `}' is found?

It doesn't matter whether the `}' is non-balanced.  Even if it is
balanced, the problem still shows up.  The original problem showed up
with libtool, that used something like:

foo=${foo='${MAGIC}'}

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