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

[Linus Nordberg]

Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
17 Mar 2000 16:05:33 +0100:

   I preferred the former order because so that the white chars are never
   last on the line.
   
   IFS="
            "
   
   is more explicit than
   
   IFS="   
   "
   
It may look good, but I don't think it's worth it since it doesn't
work with /bin/sh on FreeBSD. ;-)

The parameters in $* are separated by the first character of IFS, so
the `ls -t' thing in sanity.m4 fails:

  "X $srcdir/configure conftestfile" != "X
  $srcdir/configure
  conftestfile"

--linus