Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper

[Miles Bader]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
> you should probably use ${host_alias-$host} (without the colon) which
> is more portable.

Really?  I always thought it was :- that was more portable....  but I'll
take your word for it.

I prefer to use :- because it's slightly more robust for many uses
(because it considers an empty definition as if it were non-existant).

-Miles
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