Greetings,
On 2005 Jun 2 , at 10.37, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Alternatively, the better option might be to tweak *DETECT_BETTER_SHELL to prefer ksh over bin/sh..
I don't really want to intervene in this debate, but: <wince>. ksh has at least the unfortunate property that all file descriptors other than 0, 1, 2 are closed before an exec, and so aren't inherited by process children. Ksh seems unique in this, though it isn't listed as a problem in the autoconf section on shell portability issues. It's not a major problem -- and may not be a problem at all for libtool -- but it does make some otherwise attractive idioms impossible.
By the way, since tru64 seems a rather "interesting" target for libtool:
Oooh yes; oh yes indeedy. I've come to the conclusion that if your application builds on Tru64 and OS X, then it'll build just about anywhere.
All the best, Norman -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman Gray : Physics & Astronomy, Glasgow University, UK http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ : www.starlink.ac.uk
