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Re: Configuring a lib containing special characters
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Configuring a lib containing special characters |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:53:26 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Marwan Badawi <address@hidden> writes:
> Any idea on how to avoid this problem? (for now I just created a
> symlink without the ++ and it works perfectly well)
That sounds like the simplest solution. Autoconf currently requires
that package names must be useful as shell variable names, except that
"-" is transliterated to "_". I don't offhand know why it couldn't
transliterate other characters to "_" as well.