AIX and HP-UX ksh do not like expanding an empty variable in a
double-quoted shell case pattern:
$ sh -c 'foo=""; case x in "$foo"*) echo good;; $foo*) echo hmm;; esac'
hmm
$ bash -c 'foo=""; case x in "$foo"*) echo good;; $foo*) echo hmm;; esac'
good
This causes differences in the generated {gllib,gltests}/Makefile.am
files.
The fix is to simply avoid the quotes. I added a documentation note
of caution, although I think this isn't even necessary in practice,
as the shell does not do word splitting after variable expansion here.
This may still need mention in autoconf.texi.
Thanks,
Ralf
gnulib-tool: fix filelist for AIX, HP-UX ksh.
* gnulib-tool (func_filter_filelist): Do not quote possibly-empty
variables in shell case patterns, for AIX and HP-UX ksh.
diff --git a/gnulib-tool b/gnulib-tool
index 00b5138..7d724a8 100755
--- a/gnulib-tool
+++ b/gnulib-tool
@@ -1428,6 +1428,7 @@ func_get_filelist ()
# elements starting with prefix and ending with suffix are considered.
# Processing: removed_prefix and removed_suffix are removed from each element,
# added_prefix and added_suffix are added to each element.
+# prefix, suffix should not contain shell-special characters.
# removed_prefix, removed_suffix should not contain the characters "$`\{}[]^|.
# added_prefix, added_suffix should not contain the characters \|&.
func_filter_filelist ()
@@ -1440,7 +1441,7 @@ func_filter_filelist ()
ffflist=
for fff in $3; do
case "$fff" in
- "$4"*"$5")
+ $4*$5)
if test -n "$6"; then
func_remove_prefix fff "$6"
fi
@@ -1460,7 +1461,7 @@ func_filter_filelist ()
sed_fff_filter="s|^$6\(.*\)$7\$|$8\\1$9|"
ffflist=`for fff in $3; do
case "$fff" in
- "$4"*"$5") echo "$fff" ;;
+ $4*$5) echo "$fff" ;;
esac
done | sed -e "$sed_fff_filter"`
fi
