At Friday 09 October 2009, Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 05:37:29PM CEST: > > The code snippet enabling Bourne-compatibility has been improved > > in autoconf since the 2.59c version, which was the version from > > which tests/defs.in stole its current Bourne-cmpatibility > > snippet. > > > > Thus it should better to update tests/defs.in to use the newer > > snippet provided by autoconf 2.64. The simple attached patch > > should do this. > > Is this just for consistency or did this actually fix something for > you? Basically just for consistency: on my system the previous code worked correctly.
However, according to comments in autoconf (file `lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4', macro `AS_BOURNE_COMPATIBLE'), the setting of BIN_SH (which was present in the old snippet) had been removed for good reasons, explored in: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-03/msg00081.html Regards, Stefano
