Re: braced variable expansion in here documents

2006-05-25 Thread Paul Eggert
Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So I propose the following doc patch (last attachment). Looks fine, thanks. You might want to add version numbers. I confirmed that the dtksh bug still exists in Solaris 10. > And I propose that your patch be reverted and replaced by something > mi

Re: braced variable expansion in here documents

2006-05-25 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:37:11AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > If we can come up with something nicer that still avoids the bugs, > that'd be good. But let's not revert the patch until we have > something nicer in hand. sure, that's a good rule. First, let me mention what I see as the ma

optional documentation formats and targets?

2006-05-25 Thread Karl Berry
(Sorry for the wide distribution, but I wasn't sure who would be affected, and wanted to seek advice.) Eric Blake from m4 (thanks Eric) asked about the coding standards: And since dvi et. al are not invoked by 'make all', it is not obvious whether 'make install-dvi' should depend on dvi o

Re: non portable sed scripts

2006-05-25 Thread Tim Rice
On Tue, 23 May 2006, Paul Eggert wrote: > I installed this patch, which works around this particular problem by > not using shell expansion at all in the here-documents used to create > defines.sed. However, other instances of this problem lurk in > AC_LANG_SOURCE(C), _AC_INIT_HELP, _AC_DEFINE_Q,