[6533] \ to / for perl conf values

[Gavin D. Smith]

Revision: 6533
          http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=texinfo&revision=6533
Author:   gavin
Date:     2015-08-16 17:44:04 +0000 (Sun, 16 Aug 2015)
Log Message:
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\ to / for perl conf values

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/ChangeLog
    trunk/tp/Texinfo/Convert/XSParagraph/configure.ac

Modified: trunk/ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- trunk/ChangeLog     2015-08-16 17:36:39 UTC (rev 6532)
+++ trunk/ChangeLog     2015-08-16 17:44:04 UTC (rev 6533)
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2015-08-15  Gavin Smith  <address@hidden>
 
+       * tp/Texinfo/Convert/XSParagraph/configure.ac: Convert backward 
+       slashes to forward slashes in Perl's configuration values.
+
+2015-08-15  Gavin Smith  <address@hidden>
+
        * tp/Texinfo/Parser.pm (_parse_texi) <macro expansion>: If macro 
        expansion is empty, don't add to macro expansion stack.  Problem 
        with empty macro body, leading to error about recursive macro 

Modified: trunk/tp/Texinfo/Convert/XSParagraph/configure.ac
===================================================================
--- trunk/tp/Texinfo/Convert/XSParagraph/configure.ac   2015-08-16 17:36:39 UTC 
(rev 6532)
+++ trunk/tp/Texinfo/Convert/XSParagraph/configure.ac   2015-08-16 17:44:04 UTC 
(rev 6533)
@@ -7,17 +7,14 @@
           conf_value=`${PERL} -V:$1`
           echo got "$conf_value"
           # This turns a string like "cc='cc';" into a string like "cc".
-          # We also turn \" into ", \' into ' and \\ into \.  There may 
-          # be other \ sequences we want to process as well.  This is
-          # the escape sequence for single-quoted strings in Perl.
+          # Afterwards, convert \ into / in case \ is a path separator,
+          # so it is not interpreted as a special character by the shell.
           conf_value=`echo $conf_value \
               | sed -e 's/^@<:@^=@:>@*= *//'   \
                     -e 's/^'\\''//'            \
                     -e 's/ *; *$//'            \
                     -e 's/'\\''$//'            \
-                    -e 's/\\\\"/"/g'           \
-                    -e 's/\\\\'\\''/\\'\\''/g' \
-                    -e 's/\\\\\\\\/\\\\/g'     `
+                    -e 's/\\\\/\\//g'          `
           echo got "$conf_value"
 }