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[Peter O'Gorman]

On 03/07/2012 11:24 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 03/07/2012 09:49 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> > noexec seems to mean warn a lot.
> >
> > Please try with ac_cv_sh_n_works=no set and exported in the environment
> > before building and testing autoconf. I think ksh93 should be removed
> > from the list of shells with working sh -n.
>
> Can we boil things down to a simple test case of the use of ksh -n that
> causes all these test failures?  If so, then the real fix would be to
> fix the .m4 file that sets ac_cv_sh_n_works in the first place.

I'd like confirmation from Martin that this is the issue first :-)

If it is then the patch is trivial:

--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -60,8 +60,7 @@ AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether /bin/sh -n is known to work], 
[ac_cv_s
     /bin/sh -c '
       test -n "${BASH_VERSION+set}" || # Bash
       test -n "${KSH_VERSION+set}" || # pdksh
-      test -n "${ZSH_VERSION+set}" || # zsh
-      test -n "${.sh.version}" # ksh93; put this last since its syntax 
is dodgy
+      test -n "${ZSH_VERSION+set}"  # zsh
     '
   ) 2>/dev/null
 then ac_cv_sh_n_works=yes

Peter