Re: lynx-dev OS/390 1.2 patch

[dickey]

> 
> Hello, Lyncei, 
>  
> I'm hoist by my own petard.  After TED kindly incorporated one 
> of my suggestions, with editorial revisions, I find it breaks 
> OS/390 1.2.  The clear bug in the shell's handling of environment 
> variables is fixed by OS/2390 2.4.  I feel no urgency to accommodate 
> an obscure OS at an obsolescent release (2.7 is now in beta), so 
> it's within the editor's prerogative to regard the attached patch 
> as merely informative. 
thanks - will see.
  
> BTW, I'm curious about the use of "$(SHELL) -c" in a few, but 
> certainly not all, places in makefile.  If it's necessary to 

that was partly experimental - I withdrew one part of that change
because another obscure machine (CLIX) doesn't like it.

> avoid parsing techniques of (e.g.) the dreaded C-shell, shouldn't 
> this be done throughout?  In fact, maybe the command I rewrote 
> should be: 
>  
> !       $(SHELL) -c 'PATH=$(srcdir):$$PATH; export PATH; 
> $(srcdir)/cfg_defs.sh' 
>  
> -- gil 
>  
> ========================================================== 
> diff -brc orig/lynx2-8-2/makefile.in lynx2-8-2/makefile.in 
> *** orig/lynx2-8-2/makefile.in        Sat Jan 16 15:59:09 1999 
> --- lynx2-8-2/makefile.in     Sat Jan 16 16:04:44 1999 
> *************** 
> *** 392,398 **** 
>    
>   cfg_defs.h : $(srcdir)/cfg_defs.sh config.cache lynx_cfg.h 
>       @rm -f $@ 
> !     PATH=$(srcdir):$$PATH $(SHELL) -c '$(srcdir)/cfg_defs.sh' 
>    
>   install-cfg : $(libdir) 
>       -mv -f $(libdir)/lynx.cfg $(libdir)/lynx.oldcfg 
> --- 392,398 ---- 
>    
>   cfg_defs.h : $(srcdir)/cfg_defs.sh config.cache lynx_cfg.h 
>       @rm -f $@ 
> !     PATH=$(srcdir):$$PATH; export PATH; $(SHELL) -c '$(srcdir)/cfg_defs.sh' 
>    
>   install-cfg : $(libdir) 
>       -mv -f $(libdir)/lynx.cfg $(libdir)/lynx.oldcfg 


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