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Re: autoconf/configure information sources?



On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:31:40PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Alan Shutko wrote:
> 
> > Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:
> >
> > > The reason I asked is that one of the scripts I was looking at called
> > > configure and only passes 9 options (natural restriction of shell
> > > variables).
> >
> > Hmmm... I'd forgotten about that, but that may be a factor of how it
> > parses things.  You can't directly access $11 on all sh, for instance,
> > but you can "shift" things in.  Or so my tests indicate.
> 
> bash-2.05$ cat foo
> echo ${11}
> bash-2.05$ sh foo a b c d e f g h i j k l m
> k

$ cat foo
echo ${11}
$ /bin/sh foo a b c d e f g h i j k
foo: bad substitution
$ uname -s -r
SunOS 5.8

-- 
 - mdz



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