From 625d824bbee972a157eb9ebce6b77b85e0e2106b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?S=C3=A9bastien=20Villemot?= <sebastien@dynare.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:57:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] MEX extension detection now robust to spaces in MATLAB path

---
 m4/ax_mexext.m4 | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/m4/ax_mexext.m4 b/m4/ax_mexext.m4
index 17a5c58ed..6e43b9ceb 100644
--- a/m4/ax_mexext.m4
+++ b/m4/ax_mexext.m4
@@ -41,13 +41,13 @@ else
     AX_COMPARE_VERSION([$MATLAB_VERSION], [lt], [7.1], [AC_MSG_ERROR([I can't determine the MEX file extension. Please explicitly indicate it to the configure script with the MEXEXT variable.])])
     case $build_os in
       *cygwin*)
-        ax_cv_mexext=`$MATLAB/bin/mexext.bat | sed 's/\r//'`
+        ax_cv_mexext=$("$MATLAB"/bin/mexext.bat | sed 's/\r//')
         ;;
       *mingw*)
-        ax_cv_mexext=`cd $MATLAB/bin && cmd /c mexext.bat | sed 's/\r//'`
+        ax_cv_mexext=$(cd "$MATLAB"/bin && cmd /c mexext.bat | sed 's/\r//')
         ;;
       *)
-        ax_cv_mexext=`$MATLAB/bin/mexext`
+        ax_cv_mexext=$("$MATLAB"/bin/mexext)
         ;;
     esac
 fi])