Re: [patch #6448] [MSVC 7/7] Add MSVC Support

[Peter Rosin]

Ralf Wildenhues skrev:
> * Peter Rosin wrote on Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:00:33AM CEST:
> > Ralf Wildenhues skrev:
> > > -  (eval "$AR -NOLOGO -OUT:conftest.lib conftest.$ac_objext" &>conftest.err)
> > > +  (eval "$AR -NOLOGO -OUT:conftest.lib conftest.$ac_objext" >conftest.err 2>&1)
>
> > Is there a reason for this,
>
> Yes,
>   >file 2>&1
>
> is completely equivalent to
>   &>file
>
> except that the latter syntax is bash-specific and the former supported
> by all POSIX-compatible shells.  I was testing with dash last night and
> saw ugly noise on (undirected) stderr when running configure.

Oops, and *blush* :-)

Cheers,
Peter