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Re: Potential bash 2.05 issues with 'set'


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Potential bash 2.05 issues with 'set'
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 13:37:45 -0700 (PDT)

> From: "Tim Van Holder" <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 18:44:43 +0200
> 
> bash's behaviour with regards to the 'set' builtin has changed in 2.05....
> This apparently lead to a broken config.cache when using bash 2.05....

> > ! ac_cv_path_install=${ac_cv_path_install='ginstall -c'}
> > --- 115 ----
> > ! ac_cv_path_install=${ac_cv_path_install=$'ginstall -c'}

Why is this broken?  The two lines have the same behavior with Bash 2.05.

It's true that you can't parse the latter line with other shells.
So perhaps what you're saying is that, if you use Bash 2.05 to
run 'configure', you're stuck with using Bash 2.05 to do everything
else, too?

> it is probably still worth mentioning in the autoconf manual's
> section on portable shell programming.

Yes, that makes sense.



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