bug#14196: closed (Problem with invoking "missing" in directory with "(" in name (Automake 1.11.6, Autoconf 2.68))

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(Automake 1.11.6, Autoconf 2.68)
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Problem with invoking "missing" in directory with "(" in name (Automake 1.11.6, Autoconf 2.68) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:52:03 -0400 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130311 Thunderbird/17.0.4 I am using automake 1.11.6 and autoconf 2.68 on Fedora 17 and cannot configure a simple hello world program if it is placed into a directory with "(" and ")".

To reproduce:

1. Create a directory: mkdir test\(1\)

2. Take the attached tar file and untar it:
   cd test\(1\)
   tar -xzvf helloworld.tar.gz

3. autoreconf -i

4. now try and configure the project using ./configure or absolutely
   using sh -c '~/test\(1\)/configure'

In either case, you will get a failure trying to invoke "missing" due to the unexpected '(' token in the directory name.

bash $ ./configure
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
./configure: eval: line 2084: syntax error near unexpected token `('

./configure: eval: line 2084: `${SHELL} /home/cygnus/jjohnstn/test(1)/missing --run true'

-- Jeff J.

helloworld.tar.gz
Description: Unix tar archive

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>     + MISSING="\${SHELL} '$am_aux_dir/missing'" ;;
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> I made this change. Two tests (man6 and am-missing-prog) that were
> grepping for the path to missing needed adjusting for the quotes being
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> Closing this one. Thanks all. -k
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