Re: Patch: fix shell lossage in BFD_HAVE_SYS_PROCFS_TYPE_MEMBER

["Philippe De Muyter" <phdm at macqel dot be>]

> 
> > >    > 2000-02-09  Jim Blandy  <jimb@redhat.com>
> > >    > 
> > >    > 	* acinclude.m4 (BFD_HAVE_SYS_PROCFS_TYPE_MEMBER): Don't forget to
> > >    > 	put quotes around the cache variable referenc when passing it to
> > >    > 	`test', so it'll always expand into an argument.
> > > 
> > > This patch does no harm, so it is OK with me, but I don't understand
> > > why it is necessary.  If this patch is necessary, there are a number
> > > of other places where a cache variable is tested without using quotes.
> > > The autoconf macros should always arrange for a cache variable to have
> > > a non-empty value; why is that not happening for you?
> > 
> > I don't know.  I'll figure it out, and get back to you.
> 
> I can't reproduce this any more, so I withdraw this patch.
> 

Did it happen because you had a cache file, but not containing this particular
variable, because either it was a new one (introduced by a new test in
configure) or either the cache file was shared by many configure-files,
and the first configure does not initialize this particular variable ?

If that can happen, I would not withdraw your patch.