From: lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall)
Subject: RE: Strange configuration script problems...
25 Nov 1996 10:27:21 -0800
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At 03:44 PM 11/24/96 -0500, Greg Rumple wrote:
>On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Warren & SLS Knight wrote:
>
>> The problem appears to be with how the BASH shell handles the
>> the << operator.  You will see what I mean if you try the following 
>> in bash:
>>   bash$ cat <<EOF 
>>   > This is a test
>>   > EOF
>>   BASH.EXE: 9146372: No such file or directory
>> 
>> I have downloaded the source and am getting ready to look for 
>> the error.  But I am new to this list and don't know if a patch has
>> already been given.
>
>You are correct, that hits the problem directly on the nose.  I have seen
>quite a few discussions of this problem on this list, but no one has yet
>come up with a fix, or a work around (besides re-writing the configure
>script).
>
>But if anyone does have a fix for this, I would like to get a copy of it.
>
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If this truly is not just a problem with a missing /tmp directory
(I don't know; I didn't try it), then it must be a b16 bug.  I tried
the above example on the command line in b14 and it works just fine.
If its a b16 bug, maybe it will be fixed in b17???

Larry

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