Re: [PATCH] Updating code enabling Bourne-compatibility in test scripts

[Stefano Lattarini]

At Friday 09 October 2009, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> 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