Re: bootstrap update; pdksh specialties (was: the ltdl issue(s))

[Patrick Welche]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 04:39:27PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> This was the first issue we stumbled over: demo-noinst-link.test failed
> mysteriously on a NetBSD box.  We could trace that part down to a local
> modification of Autoconf's _AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE: it disabled posix mode
> for pdksh instead of enabling it, to work around the pdksh bug described
> in "info Autoconf Shellology".  I'm describing this because it causes
> subtly different behavior at random places, and had me stunned for a
> while.

Hi Ralf,

Sorry for having wasted your time with my local hack :-( If there are
any NetBSDers listening,

  http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=26493

explains the problem which my local hack to m4sugar/m4sh.m4 was trying
solve. I suppose I ought to try real ksh as opposed to "pdksh which
goes under the name of ksh" and see how it behaves..

Patrick