Re: Readonly shell variables containing newlines break caching

2016-08-03 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/03/2016 06:19 PM, Quinn Grier wrote: It appears that a configure script tries to unset all shell variables that contain newlines in a subshell as part of the caching code. This causes the subshell to exit early if any of the variables is readonly. Autoconf in general is not expecting read

Readonly shell variables containing newlines break caching

2016-08-03 Thread Quinn Grier
It appears that a configure script tries to unset all shell variables that contain newlines in a subshell as part of the caching code. This causes the subshell to exit early if any of the variables is readonly. At a minimum, this breaks caching. Here is a configure.ac file that demonstrates the i