Re: Handling `@' sign in paths

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 01:09:19PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> adl> 2002-09-15  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <address@hidden>
> adl>  * aclocal.in, automake.in: Requote each "@var@" as '@var@'.
> 
> The reason we initially used "@var@" was that on occasion @datadir@
> will be substituted as `${prefix}/share'.  This won't correctly
> interpolate with single quotes.

Argh :(

> I do agree this is a bug.  I think the fix must be to do the @var@
> substitution via Makefile.am.  (Perhaps we could use '' with @prefix@
> only, but that seems fragile.)
> 
> If you agree I will write a patch.

This seems the best, thanks!
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz