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Re: [autoconf-conversion] New tools and multilibs fight with one another


  • To: Phil Edwards <phil@xxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: [autoconf-conversion] New tools and multilibs fight with one another
  • From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: 25 Jul 2003 12:13:06 -0700

Phil Edwards <phil@xxxxxxx> writes:

> So, when a target library's configure "source"s the toplevel config-ml.in,
> and config-ml.in looks at the command-line args, all the env variables
> passed down from the toplevel are also visible in the argument list.
> 
> Somewhere, some quoting gets lost.

My guess is that the quoting is lost here:

ml_arguments="${ac_configure_args}"
...
for option in ${ml_arguments}

I see no real need for the ml_arguments variable.  Try simply
replacing all uses of ml_arguments with ac_configure_args in
config-ml.in.

Ian