On Sun, 18 Apr 2021, Michael Forney wrote: > argument size limit. In particular, since autoconf 2.70, $as_echo > no longer uses `print -r` on ksh shells[1], causing the following > message when creating config.log on Linux with oksh: > > ./configure: printf: Argument list too long What? Whose stupid idea was *that*? > [1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commitdiff;h=2b59b6f8a79b8bf77e178ff4e5aa0ede433d39cf;hp=bea5177adc0c924fe7483509a5e38a6d49319fcb Dear GNU autoconf developer, please keep using print -r -- if $KSH_VERSION is not unset/empty. This is *much* faster and more reliable. (Also, print -nr -- to omit the trailing newline.) Thanks, //mirabilos (developer of mksh) _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
