RE: sh problems

[Tim Van Holder]

> In _AS_TEST_PREPARE, we might end up echoing errors from non-working
> test commands to the user which is confusing (at least to me).
Didn't consider the possibility of 'test' providing output - sorry.

> A more serious problem is in AS_MKDIR_P.  It sets IFS to '\\/' and it
Force of habit; bash requires [\\/] to match both slash types in a shell
pattern, so I used \\/ as value for IFS as well. Reversing them here
works fine in bash though - thanks for spotting this.