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Re: Potential bash 2.05 issues with 'set'
- To: "'Akim Demaille'" <akim at epita dot fr>
- Subject: Re: Potential bash 2.05 issues with 'set'
- From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim dot van dot holder at pandora dot be>
- Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 12:25:11 +0200
- Cc: "'Paul Eggert'" <eggert at twinsun dot com>, <autoconf at gnu dot org>,<automake at gnu dot org>, <libtool at gnu dot org>
- List-Id: Discussion list for automake <automake.gnu.org>
Something like this, perhaps?
2001-10-21 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
* doc/autoconf.texi: Mention the issue of bash 2.05's
`set' builtin.
Index: doc/autoconf.texi
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RCS file: /cvs/autoconf/doc/autoconf.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.552
diff -u -r1.552 autoconf.texi
--- doc/autoconf.texi 2001/10/20 06:56:45 1.552
+++ doc/autoconf.texi 2001/10/21 10:22:40
@@ -7504,6 +7504,15 @@
Mode,, Bash @sc{posix} Mode, bash, The GNU Bash Reference Manual}, for
details.
+@item Bash 2.05 and later
+@cindex Bash 2.05 and later
+Versions 2.05 and later of @command{bash} use a different format for
the
+output of the @command{set} builtin, designed to make evaluating this
+output easier. However, this output is not compatible with earlier
+versions of @command{bash} (or with many other shells, probably). So
if
+you use @command{bash} 2.05 or higher to execute @command{configure},
+you'll need to use @command{bash} 2.05 for all other build tasks as
well.
+
@item @command{/usr/xpg4/bin/sh} on Solaris
@prindex @command{/usr/xpg4/bin/sh} on Solaris
The @sc{posix}-compliant Bourne shell on a Solaris system is