MKS sh problem

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > The configure script [of groff] has been generated with the most
> > recent version of autoconf (2.59, just a few days old), which
> > hopefully has improved support for MKS sh --
> 
> A quirk of MKS sh causes immediate failure of configure.  Win32 uses
> nul rather than /dev/null; for compatibility, MKS sh accepts
> redirects to /dev/null, but sh won't source /dev/null.  Changing the
> cache_file to something else gives a workaround.  It seems to me
> that the behavior of sh should at least be consistent: I've apprised
> MKS of the issue; perhaps they will will be changed in a future
> release.  configure's behavior isn't the most portable, either;
> perhaps configure could define a null_dev to give better
> portability.

I've CCed bug-autoconf; it should be rather easy to fix IMHO.


    Werner