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Subject: Re: config.sub/config.guess using nonportable $(...) substitutions
From: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller () sudo ! ws>
Date: 2021-03-09 21:33:10
Message-ID: 7063609dabf790b3 () sudo ! ws
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On Tue, 09 Mar 2021 14:11:36 -0700, Warren Young wrote:
> That's the real trick, isn't it? We have to set *some* threshold for droppin
> g support for old platforms. I expect Autoconf isn't compatible with Ultrix
> any more, for instance.
That's a good reminder that we've been here before. I remember
being somewhat irked when autoconf stopped working with the SunOS
4.x /bin/sh (due to the use of shell functions IIRC). When I found
that bash would process the script far faster than the V7-derived
shell could I didn't mind any more :-)
And as Paul pointed out earlier, Solaris 10 has multiple shells
that support $( cmd ) syntax, they just aren't called /bin/sh.
- todd
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