Re: bin/45269 (sh fails to strip trailing newline in command substitution, breaking build)

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/45269; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/45269 (sh fails to strip trailing newline in command
 substitution, breaking build)
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:21:52 +0000

 On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:25:02PM +0000, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
  >  After rebuilding /bin/sh with christos' patch and retrying a tools
  >  build, I can confirm that it fixes the issue.
  >  
  >  Reverting to the older /bin/sh does bring the problem back, so it's very
  >  likely to be the root cause.
 
 Given that the problem also goes away if you turn around three times
 and sneeze over your shoulder, I think that's far from guaranteed. I
 haven't looked at this recently (I did at one point a few months ago)
 but we need to at least sort out what dsl@ is concerned about before
 calling it fixed.
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost