Re: [bug-gettext] Sync the code for determining PATH_SEPARATOR with the one in Autoconf

[Daiki Ueno]

Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden> writes:

> Both in the 'autopoint' and 'gettextize' scripts, in the code of the
> 'func_find_curr_installdir' function, I see that the following code is
> used to determine the value of the PATH_SEPARATOR variable:
[...]
> I think it might be nice to rewrite this code so that it doesn't touch
> the file system, the same way it's done by modern Autoconf (a way that
> is also used by gettext own  file 'gettext-runtime/m4/progtest.m4' BTW):

In "autopoint and GREP_OPTIONS" thread, I proposed to use M4sh to
generate autopoint and gettext with common shell functions (including
PATH_SEPARATOR setting) from Autoconf.

I postponed it until the release, since it requires to replace all m4
quotes and also I wondered if it is the recommended way nowadays; it
seems libtool recently changed not to use M4sh.

Do you have any suggestion to proceed?

Thanks,
-- 
Daiki Ueno