Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 12:29:29 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Teun Burgers <burgers AT ecn DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] DJGPP port of GNU Autoconf 2.13 update 2
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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.