Re: Backquotes in quotes in backquotes (Was: Success (mostly) with the testsuite)

[Daniele Arena]

On 30 Nov 2000, Akim Demaille wrote:

> Daniele> OK, I give up. I reran all the tests with plain Bourne shell,
> Daniele> and I obtained Yet Another Different Set of failed checks.
> 
> Good news :(
> 
> Daniele> If you really want, I can send you the tests with sh, bash
> Daniele> and tcsh . But maybe privately, not to spam the list.
> 
> This list is meant to be spamed with such content.  Each time you send
> something to just one maintainer, you make it harder for us to try to
> understand a decision we took some months ago.  Think of all the
> archives around there, and their use!

OK, you asked for it.:) Here they are...

> Daniele> Well, I was "born" with C Shell, 
> 
> You're Venus!  I knew it!

Hmm. I feel more like a Coquille St-Jacques.:) (And I'm a guy, BTW:).

> >> How about this:
> >> 
> >> if (foo=foo; test "$foo" != foo) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
> >> AC_MSG_ERROR([your shell does not appear to be a Bourne shell]) fi
> 
> Daniele> Hey come on, I know which shell I run...:) The file I sent
> Daniele> you some mails ago was produced by bash, and not tcsh.
> 
> I was talking of M4sh, independently from our issue :)

Sorry. "Problem between keyboard and chair". Yes, why not? If you want
people not to use any C-style shell, you should probably do it.

Cheers,

Daniele.

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