Re: [PATCH] configure: check whether shell is capable of parameter substring processing

Subject: Re: [PATCH] configure: check whether shell is capable of parameter substring processing

Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:21:04 -0300

To: Tomi Ollila, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner

Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

> 'configure' script uses parameter substring extensively. It is Posix shell
> feature. Original Bourne shell does not have such features. Some systems
> still ships such shells as /bin/sh (for compatibility reasons -- shell
> scripts written on those platforms are expected to work on 1990's systems).

pushed, finally.

d

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