Re: How to correctly patch without cdbs?

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Olly Betts <olly@survex.com> wrote:

> The autoconf manual, section 10.10 "Limitations of Shell Builtins" (in
> the CVS HEAD version at least) says:
>
> `!'
>      The Unix version 7 shell did not support negating the exit status
>      of commands with `!', and this feature is still absent from more
>      modern shells (e.g., Solaris `/bin/sh').  [...]

OK, thanks for the reference (yes, I am surprised). It doesn't say,
though, whether legacy systems such as Solaris have a 'test' builtin
that supports negation. ;-P

Regards,

-- 
Florent