[GRASS-dev] r57291: configure.in: disable pwd -W (WinGRASS)

Hamish hamish_b at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 27 21:54:46 PDT 2013


Hi,

re r57291, it's not safe to modify core files after the last RC :-(

http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/57291/grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4/configure.in


There's a missing " quote at the end of line 110. One thousand times lucky this was in a commented out part!!


Hamish

ps- curly brackets do not work for quoting strings or paths, only variable names. if used when not actually needed it fools students of the code into thinking that they will be safe to use instead of real "quotes", and so the misconception & breakage gets propagated on and on. This is especially important for things touching MS Windows where spaces in the path names are common and the future reader may not be a veteran Bourne coder.


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