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On Solaris 10, grep snapshot apparently hit by bleeding-edge Autoconf bug

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Message #25 received at 17471-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Autoconf bugs <bug-autoconf <at> gnu.org>, 17471-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17471: On Solaris 10, grep snapshot apparently hit by
 bleeding-edge Autoconf bug
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 18:34:07 -0700

Thanks for dealing with that.
The only potential problem I see with your patch would be when
one runs configure with a perverse program name transformation,
e.g., --program-transform-name='s/^/$/', introducing a shell
metacharacter (or leading/trailing white space!) in the resulting
name.  In that case, the lack of single quotes around @grep@
would be fatal.

Fixing that is not high priority. Anyone who does that to
grep deserves the result :-)

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