Re: [PATCH] vc-list-files: avoid failure when /bin/sh is dash

[Eric Blake]

Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes:

> That is because bash and dash work differently:
>   $ for i in bash dash; do $i -c 'a=odd; a=ok b=$a; echo '$i' $b'; done
>   bash ok
>   dash odd

Good catch.  And yes, this is already documented in the autoconf manual on 
shell portability; the order of assignments is unspecified (so you should treat 
dependent variables similarly to how you follow C rules for sequence points).

-- 
Eric Blake