On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 02:57, Akim Demaille wrote: > > >> It occurs to me that this could also be solved by generating a small > >> standalone script using the tmpdir mechanism, to replace the shell > >> function. Would that solution be preferable? > > Number one problem is that most of the time, we want the same > environment as configure, so exec'ing a file is not possible. We'd > have to use `.' or `source', that do already exhibit portability > problems (in particular wrt passing arguments).
I don't understand your objection. I am not proposing a solution for "most of the time," I was proposing a solution for a particular problem, i.e., metacharacters existing in the RHS of sed substitutions. There is no need to source, you are simply running a command like every other command in status.config. Bob
