[sr #110656] On AT&T UnixPC (3b1), parameter $3 gets overwritten (cleared) by call to subfunction.

[Alain Knaff]

Follow-up Comment #5, sr #110656 (project autoconf):


[comment #4 comment #4:]
> > Only snag was that it failed to write out confcache and Cache variables to
config.log due to out of memory condition.
> I suggest using dash instead of bash for this sort of thing.

Thanks for the suggestion

> The 'configure' script should be portable to any POSIX-compatible shell, and
dash should be POSIX-compatible and should require fewer resources than bash.

I would have thought so too about portability, but actually it turns out that
dash is much less portable than bash, due to its very incomplete autoconf
script. Compiling it for UnixPC requires many more custom adaptions with just
as much opportunities for errors.
Unless I maybe got the wrong version, I've got here 0.5.11.5 fetched via apt
source. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a plain ftp or http download location.


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