On 01/02/2015 11:12 AM, Glenn Morris wrote:
The autoconf manual says Don't rely on ln having a -f option.
Although that was good advice in the early 1990s when that part of the
Autoconf manual was written, the advice has been obsolete for years. I
installed the attached patch into Autoconf
On Fri, 2015-01-02 at 16:06 -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
While paths with spaces in them may be a fact of reality, they are
non-portable according to POSIX. It is going to be an uphill battle if
you want to submit patches to make autoconf automatically handle file
names with spaces, as there is
On 01/01/2015 02:57 PM, Kip Warner wrote:
On Wed, 2014-12-31 at 12:02 -0500, David A. Wheeler wrote:
They can do workarounds with symlinks, etc., to try to *hide* the reality,
but
since autoconf is supposed to do things *automatically*, that means that
autoconf fails to do the one job it's
On Fri, 2 Jan 2015, Eric Blake wrote:
While paths with spaces in them may be a fact of reality, they are
non-portable according to POSIX. It is going to be an uphill battle if
you want to submit patches to make autoconf automatically handle file
names with spaces, as there is nothing portable
