Hi Stepan, * Stepan Kasal wrote on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:28:58PM CEST: > I have just adviced a project to use > > var=`"$srcdir/cmd" "prm"` > > instead of > > var="`"$srcdir/cmd" "prm"`" > > The manual states that some shells misinterpret the latter, in > http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Shell-Substitutions.html > > Does anyone here know which shells contain this bug? > Are they extinct these days or is it Solaris?
Solaris 10 /bin/sh has at least some problems with it: $ var="`echo "hi"`" $ var="`echo " hi "`" : cannot execute hi: not found Cheers, Ralf
