Hi Paolo, * Paolo Bonzini wrote on Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 06:38:19PM CEST: > Also, the zsh issue has to be understood better (and could be a deal > breaker, though I don't think so). It basically means that you cannot call exit nor trap inside a shell function. Nor can you use $? at the start of a function. But you'll deal with that anyway since you will want to put something like $as_debug at the start of each function (either being empty, or 'set -x'), for ksh. So, whenever you expand (or eval) arbitrary text into a shell function, there is a potential problem. One possible solution is to split the functionality in two function, a prepare and a postprocess one, and call the arbitrary work outside. I'm not quite sure how prevalent systems with this zsh are (but probably still too common to completely ignore them). Even when we can ignore them, the script header should be sure to error out for such systems (because the corruption is silent, and hard to detect). Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
