* Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:56:04PM CEST: > >>> "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > RW> Posix allows shells to have IFS unset at startup (and some older Debian > RW> ash versions -- IIRC distributed with RedHat -- do this); unset IFS is > RW> fine since the shell is required to behave as if it were set to space > RW> tab newline. However, set but empty IFS is different: it disables field > RW> splitting: oIFS=$IFS; ...; IFS=$oIFS. > > RW> The patch below fixes this for install-sh and mkinstalldirs. OK? > > Yes, thanks.
Applied, thanks. Cheers, Ralf