[issue17103] ampersand "&" in path prevents from compiling pthon

2013-02-02 Thread gheorghe mosteoru
gheorghe mosteoru added the comment: I think this might be a bug in autoconf: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2012-08/msg0.html The latest version of autoconf gives me a message when I try to run configure (for autoconf code itself) in that directory checking whether build

[issue17103] ampersand "&" in path prevents from compiling pthon

2013-02-02 Thread gheorghe mosteoru
New submission from gheorghe mosteoru: I've be trying to compile python in a folder which had '&' (ampersand) in the path and i couldn't. First configure got some weird output: configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile.pre sed: -e expression #1, char 435: unknown op