Can anyone explain what this code in autoupdate does? :-
my $macros = new Autom4te::XFile ("$autoconf"
. " --trace AU_DEFUN:'AU:\$f:\$1'"
. " --trace define:'AC:\$f:\$1'"
. " --melt /dev/null |");
It appears to be causing the error msg:-
no such file or directory: /dev/null
on OS/2. This may be due to a bug in sh or Perl on OS/2 but it's difficult
to debug. What exactly is the purpose of '/dev/null |' above, and can I
try using something else instead just to get a pointer to the underlying
problem?
--
John
