Re: Patch for argument quoting when invoking sub-configures.

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Van Holder <address@hidden> writes:

Tim> 2001-01-15 Tim Van Holder <address@hidden>

Tim> * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS): If necessary, quote the
Tim> --srcdir and --cache-file options we add when running
Tim> sub-configures.

I'm applying the first part of your patch, because the second is still
not clear with regards to your comments.

Tim> Note that the situation where cache-file or srcdir are quoted
Tim> will currently result in them being passed _twice_ to the
Tim> sub-configure, as the case structure at the start of
Tim> _AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS won't match '--srcdir=* or '--cache-file=*'.

I'm sorry for being slow at understanding the full problem, but there
is something unacceptable here.  We must not not know the state of
these variables.  We can not keep `can' and must move to `are escaped'
or `are not escaped'.

Can you show us two different runs with one showing them escaped, and
not the other?

Better yet (yet I know I'm very demanding here...)  could you submit a
patch for the test suite to trigger your failure?  Look at torture.at,
there is already code which exercises escaping of meta chars.