Re: IFS in install-sh and mkinstalldirs

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:56:04PM CEST:
> >>> "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>  RW> Posix allows shells to have IFS unset at startup (and some older Debian
>  RW> ash versions -- IIRC distributed with RedHat -- do this); unset IFS is
>  RW> fine since the shell is required to behave as if it were set to space
>  RW> tab newline.  However, set but empty IFS is different: it disables field
>  RW> splitting:  oIFS=$IFS; ...; IFS=$oIFS.
> 
>  RW> The patch below fixes this for install-sh and mkinstalldirs.  OK?
> 
> Yes, thanks.

Applied, thanks.

Cheers,
Ralf