Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I haven't seen any response to this report yet. I'm beginning to think that Ultrix's /bin/sh is so bad that polluting, er... changing autoconf to accommodate is may not be worthwhile. Do any of you have an idea of how big the Ultrix-using community is? | Is there a good reason the "empty" file can't be done using: | | rm -f empty && touch empty (just to be thorough) I vaguely recall that we couldn't depend on touch. However, it *is* in the list of programs mentioned in standards.info's `Utilities in Makefiles' section. | or | | cp /dev/null empty Not everyone has a /dev/null. | or | | cat /dev/null > empty | | or ??? | | Harlan
- autoconf test ': >emtpy' problem under Ultrix Harlan Stenn
- Re: autoconf test ': >emtpy' problem under Ultrix Akim Demaille
- Re: autoconf test ': >emtpy' problem under Ultrix Jim Meyering
- Re: autoconf test ': >emtpy' problem under Ultrix Akim Demaille
- Re: autoconf test ': >emtpy' problem under Ultrix Jim Meyering
- Re: autoconf test ': >emtpy' problem under Ultr... Akim Demaille
- RE: autoconf test ': >emtpy' problem under Ultr... Tim Van Holder
- Re: autoconf test ': >emtpy' problem under Ultrix Paul Eggert
- Re: autoconf test ': >emtpy' problem under Ultr... Akim Demaille
- Re: autoconf test ': >emtpy' problem under Ultr... Harlan Stenn
- Re: autoconf test ': >emtpy' problem under Ultrix Nicolas Joly
- Re: autoconf test ': >emtpy' problem under Ultr... Akim Demaille
- Re: autoconf test ': >emtpy' problem under Ultrix Eric Siegerman