Re: Finish making zsh Bourne-compatible

[Paul Eggert]

Noah Misch <address@hidden> writes:

> I tested this change on a Fedora Core 1 system and all Autoconf
> tests continue to pass.

Thanks for your detective work and the fix.  I installed your patch
into Autoconf CVS.

> I really cannot run the Autoconf test suite on Mac OS X with zsh,
> though.  It could take _weeks_.

A dumb question that I hope has a quick answer: is the problem because
zsh is slow, or because Autoconf is doing something wrong?  (I don't
use Mac OS X so I can't easily tell directly....)

> I collected enough information on quote removal behaviors in various
> shells to add a section documenting them to the the Portable Shell
> section of the Autoconf manual.  Would that interest folks?

Absolutely.  If it's a nontrivial change, though, we'd need to have
you sign papers transferring copyright to the FSF.  If that's OK with
you please let me know and I can point you in the right direction.

Thanks again for the fix.