Re: maintainer checks

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Eric,

* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 04:56:34AM CEST:
> > also some rules are not so useful (the `space tab' combination
> > is used several times correctly in some macros).

> If space-tab is really a requirement of the macro, it must be quoted
> to be protected to the shell.  Therefore, we should always be able
> to break the quoting into two pieces, so that there is no longer a
> space-tab in the .m4 file.

It may also be in a here document; or a plain m4 regex, FWIW.  But the
latter doesn't show up in Autoconf luckily, so we can use @&t@ to break.

I have applied the two attached patches.

Does anybody care about space-tab in config.guess, config.sub?

Cheers,
Ralf

        * NEWS, TODO, bin/autoreconf.in: `filesystem' -> `file system'.

        * TODO, config/Makefile.am, lib/freeze.mk, lib/autoconf/c.m4,
        lib/autoconf/specific.m4, lib/autoconf/status.m4,
        lib/autoconf/types.m4, lib/autotest/general.m4,
        tests/mktests.sh, tests/torture.at: White space cleanup:
        remove some SPACE before TAB, or add quoting ('' or @&t@).

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