On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Peter Ekberg wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:38:31PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> > > unpack() {
> > > winbase=`cygpath -m ${srcdir}`
> >
> > Ahem,
> >
> > winbase="`cygpath -m "${srcdir}"`"
>
> Ahem,
>
> quote from the autoconf manual:
>
> ------8<------
> [snip]
> Contrary to a persistent urban legend, the Bourne shell does not
> systematically split variables and back-quoted expressions, in
> particular on the right-hand side of assignments and in the argument of
> `case'.
> ------8<------
Fair enough. The other quotes *are* needed, however.
Igor
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