From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:26:56 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Avoid a shell syntax error, when building with an inadequate Perl.
X-Git-Tag: COREUTILS-6_8~6
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=75460e090c5bd114912a659ad73e469c08a2d60c;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

Avoid a shell syntax error, when building with an inadequate Perl.
* man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Add quotes around $(PERL) in case, since
it can expand to "/.../missing perl".
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 07249f0895..d9163e88ad 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2007-02-24  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
 
+	Avoid a shell syntax error, when building with an inadequate Perl.
+	* man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Add quotes around $(PERL) in case, since
+	it can expand to "/.../missing perl".
+
 	* man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Warn when unable to update a man page.
 	Suggestion from Bruno Haible.
 
diff --git a/man/Makefile.am b/man/Makefile.am
index 17b3415ba5..32df9d1766 100644
--- a/man/Makefile.am
+++ b/man/Makefile.am
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ mapped_name = `echo $*|sed 's/install/ginstall/; s/test/[/'`
 # That is necessary to avoid failures for programs that are also shell built-in
 # functions like echo, false, printf, pwd.
 .x.1:
-	@case $(PERL) in					\
+	@case '$(PERL)' in					\
 	  *"/missing "*)					\
 	    echo 'WARNING: cannot update man page $@ since perl is missing' \
 	      'or inadequate' 1>&2 \