The handling of special characters, most notable backslashes, of
course, might be nonportable in addition of being of clearly
specified.
-
-** AC_TRY_EVAL of multi line commands
-
-Is broken. The problem is mostly that, again, the policy wrt special
-characters is not clearly defined. Because of this,
-_AC_INIT_PREPARE_FS_SEPARATORS will output undesired messages, but is
-not guilty.
-
-./configure: /home/lrde/prof/akim/src/ace/tests; conftest.sh: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
-
-AC_TRY_COMMAND is.
-
-** AC_CHECK_PROG
-
-and all the macros that use it, are paying the change for test -f to
-test -x to determine whether a candidate path is an executable: now we
-have false positives with directories which, indeed, are test -x.