AW: AW: bash 2.05a on HP-UX 11.00 requires patch

[Austermuehle Stephan]

Hi,

maybe someone with autoconf knowledge can add this check? I don't know how
to...

Stephan

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Andreas Schwab [mailto:schwab@suse.de]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. November 2001 15:37
An: Austermuehle Stephan
Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org
Betreff: Re: AW: bash 2.05a on HP-UX 11.00 requires patch


Austermuehle Stephan <Stephan.Austermuehle@mgi.de> writes:

|> Andreas,
|> 
|> well, at the moment (HP-UX 11.X) strtold(3C) definitively returns the
type
|> long_double. In the release notes HP states that they will change the
return
|> type to long double one day. Meanwhile HP-UX users need a work-around to
get
|> the bash running. I hope that HP makes this function conforming to the
|> standard soon, but I think we won't see this in HP-UX 11.00, or 11i.

Well, then there needs to be a autoconf check for this stupid bug, and
strtold must be assumed to not exist in this case.

Andreas.

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