Hi Lou.

Please keep the mailing list in loop when you answer.  Thanks.

I'm re-sending your answer to the list, so that it gets seen by the other
subscribers and registered in the bug tracker.

On 02/28/2012 03:05 PM, Lou Picciano wrote:
> Stefano,
> 
> Tks for your notes -
> I'm encouraged to think that, with a bit of work, I may just wind up with a
> perfect version of automake!
> On specific points:
> 
>    Ah, likely the famous ksh bug with "$@" and empty arguments:
> 
>      <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2009-12/msg00037.html>
> 
>    Can you verify that your shell suffers of the problem described there?  If
>    yes, a patch to fix this issue should be trivial.
> 
> Looks like we reproduce that bug example exactly - what patch would you propose?:
>
Just a simple workaround for the affected shell function(s); see the attached
patch.  Could you confirm it fixes your problem?

>    drlou@build:~$ foo.sh
>    ---
>    $#: 0
> 
>    ---
>    $#: 1
> 
>    ---
>    $#: 2
>    xy
>    ---
>    $#: 2
>    xy xay
>    ---
>    $#: 3
>    xay xy xby
>    ---
>    drlou@build:~$ sh foo.sh
>    ---
>    $#: 0
> 
>    ---
>    $#: 1
> 
>    ---
>    $#: 2
>    xy
>    ---
>    $#: 2
>    xy xay
>    ---
>    $#: 3
>    xay xy xby
>    ---
>    drlou@build:~$ ksh foo.sh
>    ---
>    $#: 0
> 
>    ---
>    $#: 1
> 
>    ---
>    $#: 2
>    xy
>    ---
>    $#: 2
>    xy xay
>    ---
>    $#: 3
>    xay xy xby
>    ---
> 
> On the 'find' question:
> 
>    find: bad option -links
>    find: [-E] [-H | -L] path-list predicate-list
> 
> 
>    Oops, your find (1) doesn't support the '-links' option, which is mandated by
>    POSIX:<http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604599/utilities/find.html>.
> 
> Yes, exactly right - build system defaults to 'solaris' find. working on this
> one next...:
> 
So you are planning to fix your system's version of find?  That would be great,
since it would allow us to avoid putting another ugly workaround in automake's
rules.

> drlou@build:~$ find -links
> find: illegal option -- l
> find: [-E] [-H | -L] path-list predicate-list
>
> drlou@build:~$ /usr/gnu/bin/find -links
> /usr/gnu/bin/find: missing argument to `-links'
> 
> Regards, Lou Picciano
> 

Thanks,
  Stefano