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

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?

Gerald
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