echo of some shells such as pdksh recognizes '\' as an escape
character. So when echoing a path, the result can be corrupted. For
examples, echo x:\usr\bin will be x:\usin.
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SITE_LOAD): Convert '\' in PATH to '/'
on OS/2.
---
lib/autoconf/general.m4 | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/lib/autoconf/general.m4 b/lib/autoconf/general.m4
index 59d204f..327bbc1 100644
--- a/lib/autoconf/general.m4
+++ b/lib/autoconf/general.m4
@@ -1951,6 +1951,15 @@ do
|| AC_MSG_FAILURE([failed to load site script $ac_site_file])
fi
done
+
+if test -n "$OS2_SHELL"; then
+ # Backslashes into forward slashes:
+ # The following OS/2 specific code is performed AFTER config.site
+ # has been loaded to allow users to change their environment there.
+ # This strange code is necessary to deal with handling of backslashes by
+ # ksh.
+ export PATH=$(expr "$PATH" | tr '\\' /)
+fi
])
--
1.8.5.2
