From: Tom Lane Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 00:52:22 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Dodge an ancient ksh bug that breaks configure on some platforms. X-Git-Tag: REL8_4_10 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=28b78e8863bbec8a0e13c067df98d543c0084e7b;p=postgresql Dodge an ancient ksh bug that breaks configure on some platforms. 8.4.10's configure script suddenly started failing on platforms that use older versions of ksh as /bin/sh. It turns out to be a ksh bug that's triggered by here-document delimiters falling across bufferload boundaries: https://mailman.research.att.com/pipermail/ast-developers/2010q4/000797.html Hopefully this will get fixed before we trip over it again, but to make 8.4.10 releasable, add a comment to move the boundaries to dodge the bug. Per buildfarm members koi and warthog, plus a report from Bjorn Munch of the identical failure on Solaris 10. --- diff --git a/configure b/configure index 119cded294..72c7d936ef 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -27415,6 +27415,9 @@ ac_config_headers="$ac_config_headers src/include/pg_config.h" ac_config_headers="$ac_config_headers src/interfaces/ecpg/include/ecpg_config.h" +# This comment is to lengthen the configure script to dodge this ksh93 bug: +# https://mailman.research.att.com/pipermail/ast-developers/2010q4/000797.html + cat >confcache <<\_ACEOF # This file is a shell script that caches the results of configure # tests run on this system so they can be shared between configure diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in index b95e537987..a08d9f9227 100644 --- a/configure.in +++ b/configure.in @@ -1878,6 +1878,9 @@ echo >src/include/stamp-h AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([src/interfaces/ecpg/include/ecpg_config.h], [echo >src/interfaces/ecpg/include/stamp-h]) +# This comment is to lengthen the configure script to dodge this ksh93 bug: +# https://mailman.research.att.com/pipermail/ast-developers/2010q4/000797.html + AC_OUTPUT # Warn about unknown options