autoconf choking on paths containing comma

[Sascha Silbe]

Hi!

I first tried it on the openssh ml, but they told me it'd rather look like a 
bug in autoconf, so here I am.

This is my problem:

If I leave the openssh 3.1p1 sources untouched, it works fine with paths 
containing a comma (,). But after just running autoconf (without touching 
anything else), configure chokes on these paths:

=== Begin screenshot ===
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
sed: -e expression #1, char 435: Unknown option to 's'
config.status: creating openbsd-compat/Makefile
sed: -e expression #1, char 480: Unknown option to 's'
config.status: creating scard/Makefile
sed: -e expression #1, char 453: Unknown option to 's'
config.status: creating ssh_prng_cmds
sed: -e expression #1, char 445: Unknown option to 's'
config.status: creating config.h
=== End screenshot ===

That's because the paths are used unquoted in config.status:

=== Begin extract from config.status ===
  sed "

:t
/@[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z_0-9]*@/!b
s,@configure_input@,$configure_input,;t t
s,@srcdir@,$ac_srcdir,;t t
s,@abs_srcdir@,$ac_abs_srcdir,;t t
s,@top_srcdir@,$ac_top_srcdir,;t t
s,@abs_top_srcdir@,$ac_abs_top_srcdir,;t t
s,@builddir@,$ac_builddir,;t t
s,@abs_builddir@,$ac_abs_builddir,;t t
s,@top_builddir@,$ac_top_builddir,;t t
s,@abs_top_builddir@,$ac_abs_top_builddir,;t t
s,@INSTALL@,$ac_INSTALL,;t t
" $ac_file_inputs | (eval "$ac_sed_cmds") >$tmp/out
=== End extract from config.status ===


Any ideas how to fix this? I need to patch configure.ac to link openssh
statically (urgently needed because the openssl team keeps breaking binary
compatibility even on patch level releases).

CU/Lnx Sascha

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