[autoconf-conversion] New tools and multilibs fight with one another

Phil Edwards phil at jaj.com
Sat Jul 26 20:44:12 UTC 2003


On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 01:41:30PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > eval "for a in ${ac_configure_args}; do PROCESS ARG; done"
> 
> You can't that is a standard use of eval though :-)

Yeah, I've seen eval used in some weird places, but I'm not going to
try and add the quoting necessary to make it work here.  (I must admit I
thought eval did its work in a subshell, too.)

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