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Re: PATCH: better configure-time handling of program-transform



> What's this about?  What does it achieve that
> 
> 	eval "u_ptn=${program_transform_name}"
> 
> doesn't?  Is the extra layer of expansion really necessary anyway?

Well, when $program_transform_name is s,$$,blah,
that would set u_ptn to something like "s,99999,blah,"
whereas it should be "s,$,blah,".



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