On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 04:39:27PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > This was the first issue we stumbled over: demo-noinst-link.test failed > mysteriously on a NetBSD box. We could trace that part down to a local > modification of Autoconf's _AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE: it disabled posix mode > for pdksh instead of enabling it, to work around the pdksh bug described > in "info Autoconf Shellology". I'm describing this because it causes > subtly different behavior at random places, and had me stunned for a > while.
Hi Ralf, Sorry for having wasted your time with my local hack :-( If there are any NetBSDers listening, http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=26493 explains the problem which my local hack to m4sugar/m4sh.m4 was trying solve. I suppose I ought to try real ksh as opposed to "pdksh which goes under the name of ksh" and see how it behaves.. Patrick
