From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2020 00:53:03 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Fix regression: autotools and whitespace in file names
X-Git-Tag: v2.69c~57
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4178160225ba4337687c24870f0e1af93bb5822f;p=thirdparty%2Fautoconf.git

Fix regression: autotools and whitespace in file names

* bin/autoheader.in (templates_for_header): Fix previous change by
not warning about file names with shell metacharacters, as this is
OK for command-line file names.
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diff --git a/bin/autoheader.in b/bin/autoheader.in
index bd824ea3..b8ed9d3f 100644
--- a/bin/autoheader.in
+++ b/bin/autoheader.in
@@ -273,11 +273,7 @@ $out->close;
 {
   foreach my $template ("$tmp/config.hin", @config_templates)
     {
-      if ($template =~ /["#\$&'()*;<>?[\\\^`|]/)
-	{
-	  msg 'syntax', "warning: header template has shell metacharacters: $template";
-	}
-      elsif (! -r $template)
+      if (! -r $template)
 	{
 	  msg 'syntax', "warning: cannot read $template: $!";
 	}