Tim Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So I tried this patch (on a fresh tree). Tests passed.
That's really weird. It depends on the spelling of "_ASEOF"? Wow.
I just now undid the change to the documentation, since my guess
apparently was not correct. Instead, I installed the following change
which I hope works around the problem by avoiding the here-document
entirely.
2006-09-12 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_TEST_PREPARE): Avoid bug in UnixWare
7.1.4 /usr/bin/posix/sh described by Tim Rice in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2006-09/msg00017.html>.
--- m4sh.m4 20 Jun 2006 05:35:38 -0000 1.192
+++ m4sh.m4 12 Sep 2006 07:07:32 -0000 1.193
@@ -1021,10 +1021,7 @@ esac[]dnl
m4_defun([_AS_TEST_PREPARE],
[# Find out whether ``test -x'' works. Don't use a zero-byte file, as
# systems may use methods other than mode bits to determine executability.
-cat >conf$$.file <<_ASEOF
-#! /bin/sh
-exit 0
-_ASEOF
+echo '#! /bin/sh' >conf$$.file
chmod +x conf$$.file
if test -x conf$$.file >/dev/null 2>&1; then
as_executable_p="test -x"
