On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 15:36, Raymond Toy wrote:
> >>>>> "James" == James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> writes:
>
> James> (2) is supposed to be the way it works right now. There is a portability
> James> bug that I should fix. I know you are running on Solaris. I know that
> James> the Solaris /bin/sh is the least featureful /bin/sh I ever use. I will
> James> investigate.
>
> I think you've been bitten by shell-quoting hell. configure.in says:
>
> expanded_infodir="`eval "prefix=${tmp_prefix};echo ${infodir}"`"
Yes.
> But I really think it should read
>
> expanded_infodir="`eval \"prefix=${tmp_prefix};echo ${infodir}\"`"
>
> Note the backslashes.
Yes. Absolutely. (What was I thinking?) The fix has already been
committed.
> I'll try this out on my Linux box later to make sure it's still ok,
> but I don't expect any problems.
It works on my Linux box.
--Jim