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Re: install-sh posix compliance
- From: "Thomas E. Dickey" <dickey at herndon4 dot his dot com>
- To: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g at lrde dot epita dot fr>
- Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert at twinsun dot com>, <schizo at debian dot org>, <automake at gnu dot org>, <autoconf at gnu dot org>, <autoconf-patches at gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 05:38:02 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: install-sh posix compliance
- Reply-to: <dickey at herndon4 dot his dot com>
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> >>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@lrde.epita.fr> writes:
> If nobody knows about a system which doesn't support `-a' or
> `-o' alone, I'd suggest to keep using them in the Autoconf test
> suite. This way we'll see failures on these systems, and can
> then update the Autoconf manual with facts.
or, as is the custom, insist that the shell is buggy and that one should
upgrade to a "modern" version.
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