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Re: zsh fails the Autoconf test suite on Solaris 8
From: |
Alexandre Duret-Lutz |
Subject: |
Re: zsh fails the Autoconf test suite on Solaris 8 |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Mar 2002 18:30:41 +0100 |
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>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
>>> From: Akim Demaille <address@hidden> Date: 19 Mar 2002 16:52:24
>>> +0100
>>> Actually, I'd be happy to see zsh promoted to a higher rank too,
Paul> It turns out that Solaris 8 zsh fails the Autoconf test suite,
Paul> even though Solaris 8 ksh passes it. It fails badly, too: it
Paul> goes into an infinite looop, apparently. I'll try to get to the
Paul> bottom of this if I have the time. But this results suggests
Paul> that we shouldn't promote zsh right now.
Akim> This is a very well known issue, which was fixed is more recent
Akim> version of Zsh. As a matter of fact, it is not an infloop, rather,
Akim> it's a very bad memory management that cause these disastrous
Akim> performances.
Akim> It has been fixed since.
Akim> I must say that I don't know what sign we could us to distinguish a
Akim> good zsh from a bad one.
It was fixed in Zsh 4.0.1, the first version in the 4.x serie,
so you might distinguish a bad Zsh simply using $ZSH_VERSION.
case X$ZSH_VERSION in
X[123].*) echo bad ;;
*) echo good ;;
esac
(For the record, the analysis/fix for this bug is here:
http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2001/msg00253.html)
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz