This one is the reason for a subtle CVS Libtool testsuite failure.. With ash-0.3.8, OpenBSD 3.8 'sh' and 'ksh' PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2, I get $ false; eval 'foo=$?'; echo $foo 0 Is this a shell bug, or am I doing something wrong? If bug, where should I report it? If not, is this behavior considered "common knowledge" or should it be mentioned in the Autoconf shell portability section? With bash, Solaris ksh and several other shells I get 1, with Solaris sh I get 255, because false returns 255 there. Note that this is not the same bug as this one reported against pdksh 5.2.13: | x pdksh 5.2.13, (reported by Mark Funkenhauser): eval "$(false)" does not | result in $? being set to 1 (is 0). | [fixed in 5.2.14: c_sh.c(c_eval): set exstat to subst_exstat before shell()] Thanks, and sorry for the cross-post, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
