Re: autoconf & DJGPP: SHELL, ${ac_make}, IFS=:

[Tim Van Holder]

On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 19:44, Richard Dawe wrote:
> Index: bin/autoheader.in
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/bin/autoheader.in,v
> retrieving revision 1.126
> diff -p -u -3 -r1.126 autoheader.in
> --- bin/autoheader.in 22 Oct 2002 11:14:44 -0000      1.126
> +++ bin/autoheader.in 24 Feb 2003 18:38:37 -0000
> @@ -31,6 +31,12 @@ BEGIN
>  {
>    my $perllibdir = $ENV{'autom4te_perllibdir'} || '@datadir@';
>    unshift @INC, "$perllibdir";
> +
> +  # Override SHELL.  On DJGPP SHELL may not be set to a shell
> +  # that can handle redirection and quote arguments correctly,
> +  # e.g.: COMMAND.COM.  For DJGPP always use the shell that configure
> +  # has detected.
> +  $ENV{'SHELL'} = '@SHELL@' if exists $ENV{'DJGPP'};
>  }

I _think_ that the DJGPP perl has its OS variable ($^O) set to 'djgpp'
(might possibly be 'msdos' as well - but that would not invalidate the
setting of SHELL in this way).
That's probably a better test than relying on an envvar that may easily
be set on non-DJGPP platforms.

-- 
Tim Van Holder <address@hidden>