Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Jim,
* Jim Meyering wrote on Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:59:36AM CET:
I think it's a fine idea to disallow bogus (and potentially dangerous)
absolute names in automake's sanity.m4, but the existing code is not
sufficient.
Agreed.
To demonstrate
On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 10:55 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
On one hand, I like the idea of accommodating the rare srcdir `pwd` that
contains white space.
Pardon, but white spaces in arbitrary directories are fairly common on
Windows (My Files, Meine Dateien etc.) rsp. to users who migrate
their
Hi Jim,
* Jim Meyering wrote on Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:55:38AM CET:
On one hand, I like the idea of accommodating the rare srcdir `pwd` that
contains white space.
As Ralf alreay noted, it is not that rare with w32 users.
On the other hand, since so many Makefile.am files
are unprepared
Hello Jim,
* Jim Meyering wrote on Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:59:36AM CET:
I think it's a fine idea to disallow bogus (and potentially dangerous)
absolute names in automake's sanity.m4, but the existing code is not
sufficient.
Agreed.
To demonstrate (as non-root), create a directory named
