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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2007-07-13 14:12:01 +0200
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2007-07-13 14:12:01 +0200
commitd26ba897eb944b84e4af7e1744e12b98803ccc4c (patch)
treea8f7ca6e6db1e2c78d47f8f31c50193ccf14a8b3
parentcee14cc42f91f1245b18d3e2e9968e841ff85e50 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-d26ba897eb944b84e4af7e1744e12b98803ccc4c.tar.xz
Use proper backslash-quoting inside backticks.
* configure.ac: Otherwise we run afoul of strict GNU tr: a string ending in a lone backslash would provoke a failure.
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--configure.ac4
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a52da5d4c..a7f78f3d9 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2007-07-13 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
+
+ Use proper backslash-quoting inside backticks.
+ * configure.ac: Otherwise we run afoul of strict GNU tr:
+ a string ending in a lone backslash would provoke a failure.
+
2007-07-12 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Expand default-no-install prog list in ./configure --help output,
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 2f9f4cc80..6b5f37388 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ mk="$srcdir/src/Makefile.am"
v=EXTRA_PROGRAMS
for gl_i in `sed -n '/^'$v' =/,/[[^\]]$/p' $mk \
| sed 's/^ *//;/^\$.*/d;/^'$v' =/d' \
- | tr -s '\012\\' ' '`; do
+ | tr -s '\\012\\\\' ' '`; do
gl_ADD_PROG([optional_bin_progs], $gl_i)
done
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ done
v=no_install__progs
t=`sed -n '/^'$v' =/,/[[^\]]$/p' $mk \
| sed 's/^ *//;/^\$.*/d;/^'$v' =/d' \
- | tr -s '\012\\' ' '`
+ | tr -s '\\012\\\\' ' '`
# Remove any trailing space.
no_install_progs_default=`echo "$t"|sed 's/ $//'`