From: Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>
To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch] Compile fix for 64-bit HPUX
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:37:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e0g9pd$tcm$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jeu09g6z4r.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
> The autoconf manual says:
>
> `${VAR:-VALUE}'
> Old BSD shells, including the Ultrix `sh', don't accept the colon
> for any shell substitution, and complain and die.
>
> Thus in fact, omitting the colon is more portable.
Thanks for all the good in depth explanation; I have to confess that I
just copied that construct from another part of the autoconf script :-P
randolph
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-30 9:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-26 10:16 Randolph Chung
2006-03-28 22:27 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-03-29 0:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-03-30 0:05 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-03-30 13:05 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-03-30 13:37 ` Randolph Chung [this message]
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