Re: Bug#279992: xgettext misparses Bash source using "eval_gettext" and the `'' character (fwd)

[Bruno Haible]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> Actually, because there is no portable way to use a double-quoted
> string inside a double-quoted `...` command substitution, you should
> better write
>
>    x=`eval_gettext "Can't cd to \$var."`
>    error "$x"
>
> See the end of
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2004-07/msg00094.html
> and the top of the 'Shell Substitutions' section of the Autoconf manual.

Thanks for the hint. But pdksh is not among my porting targets. We don't
need to support all buggy software in the world.

Bruno