Re: Migrating to autoconf 2.52g

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Tim Van Holder <address@hidden>
> Date: 04 Feb 2002 13:32:34 +0100
> 
> DEVNULL=/dev/null
> test -f /dev/null || { test -f NUL && DEVNULL=NUL }

That won't work, as /dev/null is not a regular file.

Also, I wouldn't bother with this sort of porting.  I would just fix
my build environment so that /dev/null works correctly.


> > Also I notice a directory called:-
> > 
> > autom4te..cache
> > 
> > in the working directory. Is this name correct? - It looks wrong...#
> 
> Looks like a bug in perl or bash

I'd say Perl.