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Re: 2.59d on OpenServer


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: 2.59d on OpenServer
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 23:10:47 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux)

Tim Rice <address@hidden> writes:

> There is still a problem with 2.59d on the OpenServer platforms....
> It looks like the "at_help_all" variable has 12270 characters in it.
> The ksh (/usr/bin/posix/sh is a symbolic link to ksh) is blowing up
> at 4074 characters.

This is not a regression then, right?  In Autoconf 2.59 that variable
has 7368 bytes, so you ought to have the same bug with 2.59.

That being said, which version of OpenServer are you using?  What
shells does it have?  Are there any other shells besides that buggy
ksh?

<http://www.caldera.com/products/openserver507/507supplement3.html>
says that as of OpenServer 5.0.7 Maintenance Pack 3, OpenServer has
'bash'.  And <http://www.sco.com/support/update/download/> implies
that 5.0.7 is the oldest version of OpenServer that SCO still
supports.  So it sounds like all you should have to do to work around
the problem is install an SCO-supplied Bash, set CONFIG_SHELL to bash,
and you'll be off to the races.

I suppose we could work around the problem by preferring bash to sh in
our list of shells to try.  But we probably should wait until after
2.60 is out before trying something like that.

> P.S. UnixWare 7.1.4 looks good

Thanks for checking it.




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