Work around yet another shell quoting portability issue.

* configure.ac: Avoid nonportable quoted alternate variable
value in unquoted here document, so Solaris 10 sh and Tru64
ksh do not print spurious extra quotes.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d0547357cc6cc7714714ebe9f0f5a564bfb6757e..66508899815a23c286370ecf798f91227019ed6e 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2010-08-29  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 
+       Work around yet another shell quoting portability issue.
+       * configure.ac: Avoid nonportable quoted alternate variable
+       value in unquoted here document, so Solaris 10 sh and Tru64
+       ksh do not print spurious extra quotes.
+
        Silence order-only configure test for AIX make.
        * configure.ac: Also drop standard output, for AIX 5.1 make.
 

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e13ad437e45385f8ec5564e373092ecc658b3d52..87f3ce1dde861cb79cd4f52cf7d9f19b27001eb7 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -113,7 +113,11 @@ case $lt_alpha in
     TIMESTAMP=
     ;;
 esac
-AS_BOX([Configuring AC_PACKAGE_TARNAME${TIMESTAMP:+" (Build:$TIMESTAMP)"} AC_PACKAGE_VERSION])
+timestamp_string=
+if test -n "$TIMESTAMP"; then
+  timestamp_string=" (Build:$TIMESTAMP)"
+fi
+AS_BOX([Configuring AC_PACKAGE_TARNAME$timestamp_string AC_PACKAGE_VERSION])
 echo
 AC_SUBST([TIMESTAMP])
 AC_SUBST([package_revision])