From: Christian Weisgerber (naddymips.inka.de)
Date: Mon Feb 02 2004 - 09:54:26 CST

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Greg Steuck <greg-openbsd-portsy2004.nest.cx> wrote:

> cat >>conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
> ... stuff
> printf("(found \"%s\")... ", lua_version());
> ... more stuff
> _ACEOF
>
> executing this fragment with /bin/sh results in:
> printf("(found "%s")... ", lua_version());
>
> executing with /bin/zsh results in:
> printf("(found \"%s\")... ", lua_version());
>
> Is OpenBSD ksh doing the right thing here?

Apparently not. Hmm.

SUSv3 says:
  If no characters in [the delimiter] are quoted, all lines of the
  here-document shall be expanded for parameter expansion, command
  substitution, and arithmetic expansion. In this case, the backslash
  in the input behaves as the backslash inside double-quotes (see
  Double-Quotes).

From this I would say that our shell actually does the right thing.
Alas, no other shell agrees. I quickly checked Solaris sh, FreeBSD sh,
ksh88, bash2. They all preserve the backslashes.

> Should the test be fixed or the shell?

Well, in the short term you'll be better off changing the test.

--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddymips.inka.de

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