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Re: Potential bash 2.05 issues with 'set'
- To: "'Paul Eggert'" <eggert at twinsun dot com>
- Subject: Re: Potential bash 2.05 issues with 'set'
- From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim dot van dot holder at pandora dot be>
- Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 01:56:48 +0200
- Cc: <autoconf at gnu dot org>, <automake at gnu dot org>, <libtool at gnu dot org>
- List-Id: Discussion list for automake <automake.gnu.org>
> Why is this broken?
I was only relaying a problem someone else reported; it seemed odd
to me, but without 2.05 lying around, I couldn't test it.
> It's true that you can't parse the latter line with other shells.
> So perhaps what you're saying is that, if you use Bash 2.05 to
> run 'configure', you're stuck with using Bash 2.05 to do everything
> else, too?
Ah - rereading the original report, it was indeed the case that he
went back to 2.04 since 2.05 was a bit flaky (he was doing test work
to try and get DJGPP programs working properly on Win2K/WinXP).
Mystery solved.
> > it is probably still worth mentioning in the autoconf manual's
> > section on portable shell programming.
>
> Yes, that makes sense.
I'll whip up something tomorrow.