Re: autoconf-lib-link/m4/lib-ld.m4 port to POSIX 1003.1-2001

[Paul Eggert]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Would you mind testing this patch on HP-UX with CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/sh?

Sorry, I don't have access to HP-UX.  If it's any consolation, the
change is already in libtool 1.5; I just now looked for bug reports
about this and found none (which doesn't mean there isn't a bug of
course).

> Maybe adding a "| head -1" or "| head -2" to the backquoted
> expression would be safer?

I don't know of any implementation of ld where "ld -v" generates more
than 1024 bytes, so I'm not sure it'll help to use "sed 1q" or "sed
2q".  (It should't be "head -1" or "head -2"; that's not portable to
POSIX 1003.1-2001 hosts.)  On the other hand it shouldn't hurt either.