Linus Nordberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
| 17 Mar 2000 16:05:33 +0100:
|
| I preferred the former order because so that the white chars are never
| last on the line.
|
| IFS="
| "
|
| is more explicit than
|
| IFS="
| "
Avoiding trailing white space is important.
They are too easy to miss, and lots of tools assume they're insignificant.
How about defining
ac_nl='
'
and using that in the definition of IFS?
| It may look good, but I don't think it's worth it since it doesn't
| work with /bin/sh on FreeBSD. ;-)
|
| The parameters in $* are separated by the first character of IFS, so
| the `ls -t' thing in sanity.m4 fails:
|
| "X $srcdir/configure conftestfile" != "X
| $srcdir/configure
| conftestfile"
|
| --linus
