Re: CVS autoconf full testsuite failure under Tru64

[Nicolas Joly]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 11:13:28AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> You must be kidding!!!  Am I understanding they don't support
> backquotes in non quoted heredocs?

No, your example works, but ...

> ~/src/ace % cat <<eof                                            nostromo 
> 11:12
> heredoc> `echo hello world`
> heredoc> `grep Nicolas ChangeLog`
> heredoc> eof
> hello world
>         Reported by Nicolas Joly.
>         Reported by Nicolas Joly.
>         From Nicolas Joly.
>         Reported by Nicolas Joly.
>         Reported by Nicolas Joly.
> 2001-06-18  Nicolas Joly  <address@hidden>

address@hidden [temp/autoconf]> /bin/sh
$ echo `cat<<eof
> FOOBAR
> eof`
/tmp/sh936101: cannot open

$ echo `cat<<\eof
> FOOBAR
> eof`
FOOBAR

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Informatique Scientifique
Institut Pasteur, Paris.