Paul Eggert wrote:
> > The error is on line 1571, where the z/OS shell (an older POSIX ‘sh’)
> > issues:
> > FSUM7728 bad ${} modifier
>
> I must be missing context, as current gnulib/gnulib-tool's line 1571
> says "autoconf_minversion=" which doesn't have anything to do with ${}
> modifiers.
I wouldn't spend time on this issue, because
* Mike wrote:
"‘bash’ is higher up the stack (along with zsh). So – they are definitely
something
we plan to do – we just haven’t got that far up the stack yet."
* Daniel already recommended to use bash, as ported by Rocket software, not
the z/OS shell [1].
It's like we don't spend time to work around the /bin/sh bugs in
Illumos (I mean the bug with here documents and offsets that are
multiples of 4096). We instead recommend to install bash on this system.
Bruno
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2019-11/msg00036.html
