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Re: [PATCH] Yet another shell function prerequisite!
From: |
Paolo Bonzini |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Yet another shell function prerequisite! |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:37:09 +0200 |
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Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>> Paolo Bonzini <bonzini <at> gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> -_AS_ECHO([$as_me:$LINENO: $1], [AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD])])
>>> +_AS_ECHO([$as_me:${as_lineno:-$LINENO}: $1], [AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD])])
>> Actually, the manual states that ${as_lineno:-$LINENO} is not portable; we
>> have
>> to stick with ${as_lineno-$LINENO} or with a more complex expression.
>
> I'd okay with -, but what if unset does not work? I planned to do
> something like
>
> as_lineno=; AS_UNSET([as_lineno])
>
> but that could expand to
>
> as_lineno=; false as_lineno
>
> Do we still care about "old BSD shells, including the Ultrix sh"? How
> old are these?
For the record, Ultrix = 4.2BSD descendent. If OSF/1 is not in the list
and is 4.3BSD, and SunOS 4 is also 4.3BSD...
Paolo
- [PATCH] Yet another shell function prerequisite!, Paolo Bonzini, 2008/10/13
- Re: [PATCH] Yet another shell function prerequisite!, Eric Blake, 2008/10/13
- Re: [PATCH] Yet another shell function prerequisite!, Eric Blake, 2008/10/13
- Re: [PATCH] Yet another shell function prerequisite!, Paolo Bonzini, 2008/10/13
- Re: [PATCH] Yet another shell function prerequisite!,
Paolo Bonzini <=
- Re: [PATCH] Yet another shell function prerequisite!, Ralf Wildenhues, 2008/10/13
- Re: [PATCH] Yet another shell function prerequisite!, Paolo Bonzini, 2008/10/14
- Re: [PATCH] Yet another shell function prerequisite!, Paolo Bonzini, 2008/10/14
- Re: [PATCH] Yet another shell function prerequisite!, Eric Blake, 2008/10/14
- Re: [PATCH] Yet another shell function prerequisite!, Eric Blake, 2008/10/14
- Re: [PATCH] Yet another shell function prerequisite!, Eric Blake, 2008/10/14