I’m not sure I get why you changed its value in the first place. If I’m not mistaken, its default value is " \t\n", expanding "$*" uses the first character of IFS for separating values. So this should be good for your use case, unless I’ve missed something, which is very possible. :)
After review, it looks like the IFS change is indeed unnecessary, and goes back to ancient, more cargocultish times. So, to close this (and answer to zyxhere who isn't on the skaware ML), it is indeed a problem in the skalibs configure script (and the same occurs in the rest of skaware as well), and it will be fixed in the next release. Sorry about that. (Charles' advice, "don't do that", is still good advice. 😛) -- Laurent
