Bug 567616: can't find info files



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