Re: Portability problems in autoconf manual

2009-04-29 Thread Paul Eggert
It seems that 'trap 1 2 13 15' (without any command) reset the traps in a reasonably portable way, I'm afraid not. For example, on Ubuntu 9.04: $ dash !-penguin $ trap 1 2 !-penguin $ kill -2 $$ dash: 1: not found It's hard to argue that this is a bug, since POSIX requires this behavior.

Re: [CFT] sed prerelease on alpha.gnu.org

2009-04-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [adding bug-autoconf] According to Matthew Woehlke on 4/29/2009 1:07 PM: Typically, -qlanglvl=extc99 is a better choice for GNU software. I tried that also, but it results in configure picking '-qlanglvl=extc99 -qlanglvl=ansi', which presumably