Re: [PATCH] Updating code enabling Bourne-compatibility in test scripts

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 08:52:32PM CEST:
> At Friday 09 October 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 05:37:29PM CEST:
> > > Thus it should better to update tests/defs.in to use  the newer
> > > snippet provided by autoconf 2.64.  The simple attached patch
> > > should do this.
> >
> > Is this just for consistency or did this actually fix something for
> > you?
> Basically just for consistency: on my system the previous code worked
> correctly.

OK thanks.  I've committed this patch and the TEST_LOG_COMPILER one.

> However, according to comments in autoconf (file `lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4',
> macro `AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE'), the setting of BIN_SH (which was present
> in the old snippet) had been removed for good reasons, explored in:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-03/msg00081.html

Yeah, I remember.  :-)

Cheers,
Ralf