From: jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen) Subject: Zsh problem with Configure script Date: 10 Apr 1993 17:01:50 GMT
(Read this if you are using zsh as /bin/sh)
The following line was added to the Configure script in version
0.99.8:
> config.new
This creates the file config.new, or at least it is supposed to do
that. Due to a misfeature in zsh this is by default equivalent to
'cat > config.new', with the result that the command slurps the whole
input file and all the questions are skipped.
To correct the problem set the variable NULLCMD to :. This variable
controls what command name zsh assumes if no command is specified with
redirection.