Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 16:50:02 -0700 (PDT) From: dima@best.net (Dima Ruban) To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/6557: /bin/sh && IFS Message-ID: <199805082350.QAA14541@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/6557; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: dima@best.net (Dima Ruban)
To: jin@george.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun)
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, dima@best.net
Subject: Re: bin/6557: /bin/sh && IFS
Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 16:46:06 -0700 (PDT)
Jin Guojun writes:
> This my temporary working around:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> XXX=/1:/2:/3:
> IFS=:
> tmp="/0:${XXX}"
> echo $tmp
>
>
> This work-around solves many sh problems over different O.S.
It's not about work-around. For example, this problem breaks
GNU configure, if it uses something like this:
AC_PATH_PROG(PROG, prog, /usr/bin/prog, $PROGDIR/bin:$PATH)
So it really needs to be fixed.
(As you can imagine, if breaks number of ports)
>
> -Jin
>
-- dima
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