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building on OpenBSD fails because of a shell pattern problem

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From: Han Boetes <han <at> boetes.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: building on OpenBSD fails because of a shell pattern problem
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:41:33 +0100

I really don't know why the old version fails on a directory without any
non ascii chars but this patch fixes it. If this is acceptable for
everyone then please apply this patch.

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 9263d39..87df628 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ for var in "`pwd`" "$temp_srcdir" "$prefix" "$exec_prefix" \

   dnl configure sets LC_ALL=C early on, so this range should work.
   case "$var" in
-    *[[^\ -~]]*) AC_MSG_ERROR([Emacs cannot be built or installed in a directory whose name contains non-ASCII characters: $var]) ;;
+    *[[^\ ~-]]*) AC_MSG_ERROR([Emacs cannot be built or installed in a directory whose name contains non-ASCII characters: $var]) ;;
   esac

 done






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