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Re: `missing' needs patch for Ultrix4.4
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: `missing' needs patch for Ultrix4.4 |
Date: |
08 Apr 2001 09:14:42 +0200 |
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Tom Tromey <address@hidden> wrote:
| >>>>> "Jim" == Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
|
| Jim> * missing (--run): Use `eval' to run `"$@"'. Otherwise, Ultrix4.4's
| Jim> /bin/sh fails and outputs garbage.
|
| Jim> - "$@" && exit 0
| Jim> + eval "$@" && exit 0
|
| I read through this thread but didn't see convergence on a solution.
| Do we know what to do?
| Won't this problem also affect `depcomp'? And maybe other scripts?
| Or is it only an issue when $1 is "weird" (eg `:')?
Hi Tom,
It was only a problem when $@ was a shell built-in, like : or cd.