Re: [PATCH] general.m4: fix AC_INIT with unquoted bug-report field

Zack Weinberg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.patches
Message-ID <CAKCAbMh7uAR8QQ4QT3qhi_rdk-O4y9D9PwbAUU1TLdchtBwhyA@mail.gmail.com> 
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 3:55 PM Ross Burton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The bug report field is passed unquoted to m4_define which causes
> problems if it contains values such as ',' (as seen in gmp).
>
> Ensure that the value is correctly quoted to solve this.

Thanks for the patch.  FYI, before committing it I want to write some
tests for this problem and also double-check that there aren't any
other instances of this mistake in this rather complicated macro.  I
probably won't have time to do that until next week, because I've got
a deadline for the day job coming up.

zw
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