"Thomas E. Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > changes were made to autoconf
What changes are you talking about, exactly? > which made it incompatible with known, widely-used versions of > Bourne shell Which versions of the Bourne shell are you talking about here, exactly? And which softare installations are broken as a result of the changes you're talking about? The evidence so far is that nobody uses SunOS 4.x to install new software any more. So these versions are not widely-used. Perhaps you're thinking about some other versions.
