Re: Handling `@' sign in paths

[Martin MOKREJŠ]

On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:

Hi,
  I don't know what happened in the meantime, but if it helps, one can of
course do:

./configure --prefix="/software/address@hidden/usr"


> 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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