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Re: Fix quoting of program-transform-name in toplevel configure


On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 03:09:15PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Phil Edwards wrote:
> >>
> >> Interesting.  Bash seems to happily accept both forms.
> > Mm, I should elaborate:  semicolon and newline are supposed to be equivalent.
> > This is simply a bug in Solaris' native /bin/sh.  We already recommend
> > that they use a different shell, but currently we don't enforce that by
> > testing and rejecting the broken shell.
> 
> Even that different shell we recommend, /bin/ksh, fails to bootstrap
> current CVS due to the problem above.  But I understood that in this
> our sources can easily work around the problem, right?

Yes.  The fix is trivial.

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