>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tom> Maybe configure should set IFS by default?
I agree. I don't understand well why we don't define the IFS to
space, tab and nl at the top of configure, and stop providing defaults
here and there (AC_PROG_INSTALL for instance has IFS="${IFS= }", but
not all the macros do).
In fact if someone has broken IFS, typically lacking nl, then the
sanity check from Automake will fail, telling the there is a severe
clock skew, while it's only the
set X `ls -Lt $srcdir/configure conftestfile 2> /dev/null`
which is improperly split (ls will answer separating with nl, not
spaces).
Akim
