Re: 05no-escape-on-AT_CHECK-strings

[Derek Robert Price]

Akim Demaille wrote:

> I am absolutely against this patch.  Revert it.
>
> If you want something like this, you will first need to explain it.
>  

Again, CVS's current test suite often compares program output against 
shell variables defined earlier in the script.

A simple example of this is that CVS uses a configure option, provided 
by Autoconf, to allow setting of the program prefix (AC_PROGRAM_PREFIX). 
This can alter CVS's $0 and thus its error messages.  If AC_CHECK 
doesn't escape the STDOUT & STDERR strings then variables like this can 
be passed in for comparison.

Derek

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