Re: backward compatability of tools

[Paul Eggert]

"Thomas E. Dickey" <address@hidden> writes:

> changes were made to autoconf

What changes are you talking about, exactly?

> which made it incompatible with known, widely-used versions of
> Bourne shell

Which versions of the Bourne shell are you talking about here, exactly?
And which softare installations are broken as a result of the changes
you're talking about?

The evidence so far is that nobody uses SunOS 4.x to install new
software any more.  So these versions are not widely-used.  Perhaps
you're thinking about some other versions.