On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
On Sep 14, 2010, at 14:06, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Julien Cristau wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:50:44 -0400, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
[] in configure is a PITA because [] are special in m4. That doesn't
apply to this script.
Actually, autoconf changes the quotes _to_ [] from the more-pervasive `'.
("test" is used for portability, though this list doesn't touch much on that).
I belive we are concerned about portability. Do you have an example of
a bourne-derived shell (we're talking about sh after all) that doesn't
have support for [] on a system that doesn't have an [ executable in
$PATH?
probably, but it's likely older than the roughly 2-year (at most) scope of
interest in this list.
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