On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 15:28 +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote: > Hi, > is it true that > > a= ; for f in $a; do ... done > > is not interpreted correctly by some shells? Yes. > Or is it only a myth? AFAICT, it's not a myth. IIRC, Solaris' /bin/sh exposes this behavior. Also, I recall autoconf having been modified many times several years ago, because people had encountered this issue. May-be you can find traces of related discussion in the mailing list archive ;) > Autoconf contains workarounds for this bug, but the manual doesn't seem > to mention it. Too obvious and well-known to be documented ... ;) Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
