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From: dima@best.net (Dima Ruban)
Subject: Re: bin/6557: /bin/sh && IFS
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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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