Re: automake 1.8.3 patches for OS/2

[Andreas Buening]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 03:17:22PM +0200, Andreas Buening wrote:
> > --- old/automake-1.8.3/configure.ac     Sun Mar  7 17:03:14 2004
> > +++ gnu/automake-1.8.3/configure.ac     Sat Apr 10 14:43:18 2004
> > @@ -54,8 +54,8 @@
> >
> >  # $AUTOMAKE and $ACLOCAL are always run after a `cd $top_srcdir',
> >  # hence `.' is really what we want for perllibdir, libdir, and acdir.
> > -ACLOCAL="perllibdir=`pwd`/lib:./lib `pwd`/aclocal --acdir=m4"
> > -AUTOMAKE="perllibdir=`pwd`/lib:./lib `pwd`/automake --libdir=lib"
> > +ACLOCAL="perllibdir=`pwd`\"/lib$PATH_SEPARATOR./lib\" `pwd`/aclocal 
> > --acdir=m4"
> >
> > +AUTOMAKE="perllibdir=`pwd`\"/lib$PATH_SEPARATOR./lib\" `pwd`/automake 
> > --libdir=
> > lib"
> 
> What is the purpose of these inner double-quotes?  I do not understand them.

AFAIK, perllibdir=dir1;dir2 ./command
is treated by the shell as

perllibdir=dir1;
dir2 ./command

but
perllibdir="dir1;dir2" ./command
should work as expected.


Bye,
Andreas