+2007-03-29 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+ * doc/autoconf.texi (Here-Documents, Limitations of Builtins):
+ (Limitations of Usual Tools): Don't say "older" if Solaris 10 by
+ default still has the problem. Problem reported by Bruce Korb.
+
2007-03-28 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
and Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
@samp{ksh93g} (1998-04-30) but as of 2006 many operating systems were
still shipping older versions with the bug.
-Many older shells (including the Bourne shell) implement here-documents
+Many shells (including the Bourne shell) implement here-documents
inefficiently. In particular, some shells can be extremely inefficient when
a single statement contains many here-documents. For instance if your
@file{configure.ac} includes something like:
@end example
@noindent
-but the @code{(} in this example is not portable to many older Bourne
+but the @code{(} in this example is not portable to many Bourne
shell implementations. It can be omitted safely.
Because of a bug in its @code{fnmatch}, Bash fails to properly
@c ------------------
@prindex @command{egrep}
Posix 1003.1-2001 no longer requires @command{egrep},
-but many older hosts do not yet support the Posix
+but many hosts do not yet support the Posix
replacement @code{grep -E}. Also, some traditional implementations do
not work on long input lines. To work around these problems, invoke
@code{AC_PROG_EGREP} and then use @code{$EGREP}.
@c ------------------
@prindex @command{fgrep}
Posix 1003.1-2001 no longer requires @command{fgrep},
-but many older hosts do not yet support the Posix
+but many hosts do not yet support the Posix
replacement @code{grep -F}. Also, some traditional implementations do
not work on long input lines. To work around these problems, invoke
@code{AC_PROG_FGREP} and then use @code{$FGREP}.