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Re: autobuild.m4


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: autobuild.m4
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:33:00 -0700
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Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

>       if test "$?" != 0
>   I thought $? always expands to a non-empty sequence of digits. Are
>   you expecting a negative integer as value of "$?" ?

Even if $? were negative, usages like "test -1 != 0" would work on any
host conforming to POSIX, as well as on all practical hosts that I
know of.

(But it's not negative.  :-)




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