Hi Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Sat, May 02, 2009 at 11:57:41AM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > A better fix will require a better AC_TRY_EVAL replacement from > > Autoconf. > > How could the expansion of AC_TRY_EVAL be changed, while preserving > backward compatibility?
It can't. But there is a need for a better replacement, with a different name, to which we can move once that has been implemented and propagated sufficiently. > > Fix quoting of eval'ed variable. > > > > * libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 (_LT_CMD_GLOBAL_SYMBOLS): Double-quote > > $lt_cv_sys_global_symbol_pipe for eval, like we do in ltmain, > > in order to preserve TABs and multiple adjacent whitespace. > > Report by Bruno Haible. > > There are 5 more occurrences of this idiom, IMO, at lines 4127, 4142, > 4145, 4158, 4288, but I'm not sure whether the way they are eval'ed > in ltmain.m4sh:6739 makes it a non-issue. Ouch. Thanks for checking this. We fixed func_show_eval, but forgot this similar code piece. I'm working on an audit of 'eval' uses within Libtool. The patch will be bigger. Cheers, and thanks again, Ralf
