pgsql: Dodge an ancient ksh bug that breaks configure on some platforms

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Dodge an ancient ksh bug that breaks configure on some platforms
Date: 2011-12-03 00:52:52
Message-ID: E1RWdqW-0002Ha-9G@gemulon.postgresql.org
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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.

Branch
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REL8_4_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/28b78e8863bbec8a0e13c067df98d543c0084e7b

Modified Files
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configure | 3 +++
configure.in | 3 +++
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

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