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Re: shell quote bug in ax_boost_base
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Jaap Eldering |
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Re: shell quote bug in ax_boost_base |
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Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:26:23 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 06:49:38PM +0200, Peter Simons wrote:
> Hi Jaap,
>
> thank you very much for submitting those extensive patches. They are
> applied to the repository now.
>
> I noticed one thing in ax_boost_base.m4:
>
> if test "$(uname -m)" = "x86_64"; then [...]
>
> The $(...) syntax for running sub-shells is fairly portable, but there
> are old implementations of /bin/sh in use today that don't understand
> it, for instance on Solaris. To avoid any problems, I have added another
> patch that changes the code in the macro. I hope I didn't screw anything
> up. :-)
Hello Peter,
Looks fine to me and still works here... But that's just one platform.
Best,
Jaap