Re: [cygnus.egcs.patches] Patch for IFS

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 18, 2000, Felix Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> BTW, this won't work as expected if `configure' is generated on
>> platforms that use CR+LF as line separators.  We should probably try
>> to find some way that does the right thing even in such contexts.

> how about
>   IFS=`echo 'abc' | tr 'abc' '\040\011\012'`

This assumes ASCII.  We've just removed the latest assumptions of
ASCII, so it wouldn't be wise to re-introduce them :-)

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