Re: depcomp: support newer HP compilers

[Zack Weinberg]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:23:44AM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> 
> Do you have any idea which system might expose this?  None of the
> ones I have access to do, and it helps both for adding a note to
> the Autoconf doc portability section, and assessing whether we
> should check the autotools for more instances of this.

Try, um, older Solaris /bin/sed?  I don't honestly remember how
long ago I tripped over this -- I've just been sticking the semicolon
in defensively ever since.  I had thought, though, that the
proprietary Unix vendors froze the utilities in /bin and /usr/bin
in a pre-SuS state, and thus that any such problem would be present
always and forevermore.  A *lot* of these issues are masked if you
put the directory with the standard-compliant binaries (usually
/usr/xpg4/bin or something like that) ahead of /usr/bin in your
PATH, or if your sysadmin installs GNU coreutils on everything.

zw