Re: [PATCH] Work around a nasty bug of Solaris make

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 01:21:05AM CEST:
> At Friday 06 August 2010, Eric Blake wrote:
> > You'd need something like:
> >  done | { tr '\012\015' '  '; echo; } | sed 's/ *$$//'

> A little ugly...  I prefer to be more explicit and clear,

FWIW, I find the above clear and thus preferable (including the comment
on why it is needed, of course), but if you insist ...

> From 92020702ac9b8cde2ecfa248b5d34795d7209e44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 00:40:55 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] Work around a nasty bug (segfault) of Solaris make.
> 
> * lib/am/check.am (recheck, recheck-html): Trim trailing spaces
> from $list, to avoid triggering a nasty bug (potential segfault)
> on Solaris make.

OK for maint.

A patch against autoconf.texi would probably be good.

FWIW, I guess users could also just be using /usr/ccs/bin/make;
it doesn't seem to have this bug.

Thanks,
Ralf