Re: braced variable expansion in here documents

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Paul,

* Paul Eggert wrote on Thu, May 25, 2006 at 10:37:11AM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > So I propose the following doc patch (last attachment).
> 
> Looks fine, thanks.  You might want to add version numbers.  I
> confirmed that the dtksh bug still exists in Solaris 10.

Thanks.  Applied as follows.

Cheers,
Ralf

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents): We now know more about
        the variable expansion in here documents bug.
        Thanks to Tim Rice and Stepan Kasal.

Index: doc/autoconf.texi
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RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/doc/autoconf.texi,v
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diff -u -r1.1022 autoconf.texi
--- doc/autoconf.texi   25 May 2006 07:39:58 -0000      1.1022
+++ doc/autoconf.texi   25 May 2006 08:47:47 -0000
@@ -10748,13 +10748,14 @@
 
 
 Many older shells (including the Bourne shell) implement here-documents
-inefficiently.  And some shells mishandle large here-documents: for
-example, Solaris @command{dtksh}, which is derived from Korn shell
-version M-12/28/93d, mishandles variable expansion that occurs on
-1024-byte buffer boundaries within a here-document.  Users can generally
-fix these problems by using a faster or more reliable shell, e.g., by
-using the command @samp{CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash /bin/bash ./configure} rather
-than plain @samp{./configure}.
+inefficiently.  And some shells mishandle large here-documents: for example,
+Solaris 10 @command{dtksh} and the UnixWare 7.1.1 Posix shell, which are
+derived from Korn shell version M-12/28/93d, mishandle braced variable
+expansion @address@hidden@}} that crosses a 1024- or 4096-byte buffer boundary
+within a here-document.  If the closing brace does not lie on the boundary,
+the failure is silent and the variable expansion will be empty, otherwise
+the shell will report a bad substitution.  This bug can usually be worked
+around by omitting the braces: @code{$var}.
 
 Some shells can be extremely inefficient when there are a lot of
 here-documents inside a single statement.  For instance if your