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commit    28b78e8863bbec8a0e13c067df98d543c0084e7b
Author:   Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date:     Sat Dec 03 00:52:22 2011 +0000
First released in: 8.4.10

    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.


 configure    | 3 +++
 configure.in | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 119cded2944..72c7d936ef3 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 b95e5379875..a08d9f92279 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


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