Re: [Patch 1/3] Small DOS issues

[Akim Demaille]

| Not sure if the first patch is acceptable; if not; it'll
| just stay local to the DJGPP package.
| 
| 2002-03-03  Tim Van Holder  <address@hidden>
| 
|       * lib/autoconf/general.m4: Work around a DJGPP issue when
|       loading the cache file.
|       * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4: Use the canonical test for absolute
|       paths.
| 
| 
| Index: lib/autoconf/general.m4
| ===================================================================
| RCS file: /cvs/autoconf/lib/autoconf/general.m4,v
| retrieving revision 1.789
| diff -u -r1.789 general.m4
| --- lib/autoconf/general.m4   2 Mar 2002 15:19:48 -0000       1.789
| +++ lib/autoconf/general.m4   3 Mar 2002 18:21:13 -0000
| @@ -1664,8 +1664,9 @@
|  m4_define([AC_CACHE_LOAD],
|  [if test -r "$cache_file"; then
|    # Some versions of bash will fail to source /dev/null (special
| -  # files actually), so we avoid doing that.
| -  if test -f "$cache_file"; then
| +  # files actually), so we avoid doing that.  The LFN=n is needed
| +  # is needed for DJGPP's bash to DTRT under Win2K/XP.
| +  if LFN=n test -f "$cache_file"; then
|      AC_MSG_NOTICE([loading cache $cache_file])
|      case $cache_file in
|        [[\\/]]* | ?:[[\\/]]* ) . $cache_file;;

Nia?  This lacks a documentation in `test' in autoconf.texi, to say
the least.  What is this horror?  How come Bash is not smart enough to
handle this by itself?


| Index: lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4
| ===================================================================
| RCS file: /cvs/autoconf/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4,v
| retrieving revision 1.74
| diff -u -r1.74 m4sh.m4
| --- lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4       7 Feb 2002 15:49:33 -0000       1.74
| +++ lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4       3 Mar 2002 18:21:15 -0000
| @@ -504,7 +504,7 @@
|      _AS_PATH_WALK([/bin$PATH_SEPARATOR/usr/bin$PATH_SEPARATOR$PATH],
|        [for as_base in sh bash ksh sh5; do
|        case $as_dir in
| -      /*)
| +      [\\/]* | ?:[\\/]*)
|          if ("$as_dir/$as_base" -c '_AS_LINENO_WORKS') 2>/dev/null;
| then
|            CONFIG_SHELL=$as_dir/$as_base
|            export CONFIG_SHELL
 This is ok.