Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable 5.2.0

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:29:29AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > > $ a='a\b'
> > > $ expr "X$a" : 'X\(.*\)'
> > > a\b
> > 
> > That's a neat trick, I didn't know it.  Is this in the shell
> > portability guide?
> 
> No, because some older version of expr can't handle arguments larger
> than 120 bytes (this is documented).
> 
> >  Note that all --enable, --with, and A=B options are
> > passed through echo and sed, at least as of the latest version I have
> > installed.
> 
> Yes; autoconf doesn't support \ in file names.

Did you see the separate bit of my message, about _AC_INIT_PREPARE? 
That means that autoconf doesn't support \ in any arguments whatsoever
when using subconfigures.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer