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Re: fix AT_SETUP's sh-escaping

From: Joel E. Denny
Subject: Re: fix AT_SETUP's sh-escaping
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 15:26:15 -0400 (EDT) 
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Joel E. Denny wrote:

> AT_SETUP does not properly sh-escape the value of its DESCRIPTION 
> parameter.  If the value contains a single quote, sh may report a syntax 
> error.  I could not find any escape sequence on the user's end to work 
> around this case because AT_SETUP sometimes places the value between 
> double quotes and sometimes between single quotes.
> 
> Below is a patch against Autoconf's lib/autotest/general.m4 revision 
> 1.214, which is currently the head.

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