Hi Eric,
* Eric Blake wrote on Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 03:02:50AM CEST:
> According to Ralf Wildenhues on 7/24/2009 2:39 PM:
> > Do you see any other way out except to undo the move to use a shell
> > function for AS_EXIT (740062eb42)?
>
> Yep - by always passing an argument to the function (that is
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According to Ralf Wildenhues on 7/24/2009 2:39 PM:
> Do you see any other way out except to undo the move to use a shell
> function for AS_EXIT (740062eb42)?
Yep - by always passing an argument to the function (that is, doing the
defaulting in m4sugar
As documented in autoconf.texi 'Shell Functions',
Likewise, the state of `$?' is not reliable when entering a shell
function. This has the effect that using a function as the first
command in a `trap' handler can cause problems.
This hit me with FreeBSD 6.4 /bin/sh, and it trips the AS_
