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

> "Linus" == Linus Nordberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Linus> It may look good, but I don't think it's worth it since it Linus> doesn't work with /bin/sh on FreeBSD. ;-) In fact I had completely overlooked your issue. I was not aware of this feature, and didn't understand well what the man

Re: Autoconf and gnu-m4 dependency

> "Marc" == Marc Espie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Marc, Marc> I believe this to be of benefit to everybody... Apart from Marc> copyright issues, which autoconf people probably don't really Marc> care about (or probably not in the same direction that we do), Marc> this does mean that auto

Moving/Deleting open files isn't portable

The following can't be done on DOS/WIN32: #! /bin/sh exec > foo mv foo bar Nor can #! /bin/sh exec > foo rm -f foo This break autoheader for Win32. Regards, = --- Earnie Boyd: __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies:

Re: Moving/Deleting open files isn't portable

| The following can't be done on DOS/WIN32: | #! /bin/sh | exec > foo | mv foo bar | | | Nor can | | #! /bin/sh | exec > foo | rm -f foo | | | This break autoheader for Win32. What fix do you suggest?

Re: Moving/Deleting open files isn't portable

--- Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | The following can't be done on DOS/WIN32: > | #! /bin/sh > | exec > foo > | mv foo bar > | > | > | Nor can > | > | #! /bin/sh > | exec > foo > | rm -f foo > | > | > | This break autoheader for Win32. > > What fix do you suggest? Haven't th

Re: Moving/Deleting open files isn't portable

On Mar 20, 2000, Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> | This break autoheader for Win32. >> What fix do you suggest? > Haven't thought of one yet. But whatever the fix entails it will > have to close the fd to foo before the mv/rm. IIRC,

Re: Moving/Deleting open files isn't portable

--- Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 20, 2000, Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> | This break autoheader for Win32. > > >> What fix do you suggest? > > > Haven't thought of one yet. But whatever the fix entai

Re: Moving/Deleting open files isn't portable

On Mar 20, 2000, Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah. That's nice to know. I have release 2.13. I need to find a > good free ssh client for Win32 so that I can download the CVS > version. You don't need ssh for :pserver:anoncvs > Any suggestions? Nope, sorry. -- Alexandre Oliva

automake and libtool: future directions?

Hello there, I am writing to you folks as I am wondering if a tool suite of ours could make use of or contribute to libtool, automake and possibly autoconf. The suite in question is called SRT, for Software Release Tools; we use it in much of our software development. It is a set of shell scrip