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Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper |
Date: |
19 Oct 2001 17:15:16 +0200 |
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Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
|> 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.
>From the autoconf docu:
`${VAR:-VALUE}'
Old BSD shells, including the Ultrix `sh', don't accept the colon
for any shell substitution, and complain and die.
|> 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).
I you prefer you could use "test -n".
Andreas.
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- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, (continued)
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Andreas Schwab, 2001/10/18
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/18
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Andreas Schwab, 2001/10/18
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Gerd Moellmann, 2001/10/18
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Andreas Schwab, 2001/10/18
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Miles Bader, 2001/10/18
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Gerd Moellmann, 2001/10/19
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Miles Bader, 2001/10/19
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Andreas Schwab, 2001/10/19
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Miles Bader, 2001/10/19
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper,
Andreas Schwab <=
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Miles Bader, 2001/10/19
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Gerd Moellmann, 2001/10/19
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Kai Großjohann, 2001/10/18
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/18
Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Kai Großjohann, 2001/10/19
Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Dave Love, 2001/10/25