Re: autoconf/configure information sources?
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 10:02:52PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > $ 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
>
> Sun's /bin/sh isn't even POSIX-compliant. The GNU autotools people
> might have to worry about it, but the rest of us don't.
Of course, configure scripts are below posix compliant. For instance, you
can't use shell functions in autoconf, which posix shells are supposed to
have(there are other items that are similiar).
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