I submit that anything that causes somebody "familiar" with the framework or that causes more than 2 or 3 newbies problems should be documented. H -- > 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 _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
