Minor bug in configure.in

   Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:29:16 -0700
   From: Devin Kowatch <[email protected]>

   There is a minor bug in configure.in:
   line 135 is:
   CYRUS_NONE='": "'

   and should be:
   CYRUS_NONE=": "
	      ^   ^ Note the missing '

   Not a big deal but make whines when trying to do a make install because
   it's trying to run the command '": " libtool ....' rather than ': libtool...'

Hmmm... this isn't right.  The extra quoting is needed to make this
work right.  Here's why:

In the configure file, the statement

	CYRUS_NONE='": "'

binds the shell variable CYRUS_NONE to the string

	": "

When configure runs the substitution step, this rewrites Make.defs.in
to have a statement

	CYRUS_NONE=": "

which binds the variable CYRUS_NONE to the string consisting of the
characters colon and space, with no quotes.  The final Makefile
substitution happens later, when $(CYRUS_NONE) expands into the
unquoted string.

If you're seeing something different, there is a problem with your
shell.

Please send me (by MIME attachment if possible) the Make.defs
generated by configure on your machine.

Chris


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