From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16368 invoked by alias); 30 Mar 2006 09:53:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 16354 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Mar 2006 09:53:08 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:53:07 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FOtpx-0003FT-1s for gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:53:05 +0200 Received: from ip127.bb146.pacific.net.hk ([202.64.146.127]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:53:05 +0200 Received: from tausq by ip127.bb146.pacific.net.hk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:53:05 +0200 To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com From: Randolph Chung Subject: Re: [patch] Compile fix for 64-bit HPUX Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:37:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <44264D9D.5070305@tausq.org> <20060328221249.GD10392@nevyn.them.org> <20060329230151.GC9916@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-03/txt/msg00357.txt.bz2 > 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