Another try at portably getting the IFS setting we need.

3 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/build_posix/makemake b/build_posix/makemake
index d36810870fe..44d5571e279 100755
--- a/build_posix/makemake
+++ b/build_posix/makemake
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 (sed -n '1,/BEGIN SUBDIRS/p' Make.base
 
 echo "SUBDIRS = ."
-IFS=$(printf ' \t\n')
 sed -e 's/#.*$//' -e '/^$/d' Make.subdirs | (while read dir cond ; do
 	test -d ../$dir || continue
 	if test -n "$cond" ; then
diff --git a/build_posix/reconf b/build_posix/reconf
index 6e9912d7987..4087c41bf25 100755
--- a/build_posix/reconf
+++ b/build_posix/reconf
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
 t=/tmp/__configure.$$
 trap 'rm -f $t; exit 0' 0 1 2 3 13 15
 
+# Insulate against IFS from the user's env
+IFS=' ''	''
+'
+export IFS
+
 # Allow this script to be run from anywhere
 cd "`dirname \"$0\"`"
 
@@ -32,7 +37,6 @@ echo "# This file is built automatically from build_posix/configure.ac.in."
 
 sed -n '1,/BEGIN check existence/p' configure.ac.in
 
-IFS=$(printf ' \t\n')
 sed -e 's/#.*$//' -e '/^$/d' Make.subdirs | while read dir cond ; do
 	test -d ../$dir || continue
 	echo 'AC_CONFIG_FILES(['$dir/Makefile'])'
diff --git a/dist/s_typedef b/dist/s_typedef
index d11fd440232..067ae7b93a9 100644
--- a/dist/s_typedef
+++ b/dist/s_typedef
@@ -3,9 +3,12 @@
 t=__wt.$$
 trap 'rm -f $t; exit 0' 0 1 2 3 13 15
 
-# Insulate against locale-specific sort order
+# Insulate against locale-specific sort order and IFS from the user's env
 LC_ALL=C
 export LC_ALL
+IFS=' ''	''
+'
+export IFS
 
 build() {
 	# Build the standard typedefs.
@@ -15,7 +18,6 @@ build() {
 	    -e 'q' \
 	    -e '}' < $f
 
-	IFS=$(printf ' \t\n')
 	l=`ls ../src/include/*.[hi] ../src/include/*.in |
 	    sed -e '/wiredtiger.*/d' -e '/queue.h/d'`
 	egrep -h '^[ 	]*(enum|struct|union)[	 ]*__.*[	 ]*{$' $l | \