Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/07/01/07:43:38
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Teun Burgers wrote:
> On cygwin $COMSPEC is also defined. With this patch,
> IFS is set to ; on cygwin causing the search for
> programs to fail there. If : is going to
> be the default for bash 2.03 (Thread Bash 2.03 beta update)
> would it perhaps be better to leave IFS to : as follows?
>
> ac_test_flag="-f"
> if ! test -z "$COMSPEC$ComSpec"; then
> ac_test_flag="-x"
> fi
>
> The test -x works also for cygwin
I'm not sure IFS needs to be changed at all, even if : is not the
default in the DJGPP port of Bash. We can always set PATH_SEPARATOR=:
before running the configure script. Changing IFS might break
something with the DJGPP port as well.
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