Re: [sr #110403] autoconf-2.70 trips bug in here-doc handling in OmniOS /bin/sh

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 24 Dec 2020, Bruno Haible wrote:
> I would recommend to just document the problem and workaround in two places:
> 1) in the OmniOS community,
> 2) at https://gitlab.com/ghwiki/gnow-how/-/wikis/Platforms/Configuration for
> GNU people.

That seems reasonable.

> It's not worth the complexity in Autoconf for a short-lived bug in a
> small-community system, when a workaround is so easy to put in place.
>
> References:
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_OpenSolaris_distributions
> [2] trends.google.com

This Google reference (which is likely based on Google Search data) is 
very annoying to me and it seems irrelevant.  There is no need to 
diminish a viable free operating system.

In a similar spirit, I should point out that Illumos is doing better 
than CLISP according to trends.google.com since the limited 
popularlity is stable and not dwindling. ;-)

Bob
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