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Re: How do I conditinally make a makefile?


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: How do I conditinally make a makefile?
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:30:53 -0400
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On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:26:26AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > From: "Thomas E. Dickey" <address@hidden>
> > Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:49:35 -0400 (EDT)
> 
> > Reading the bug reports, it appears that 2.5x is tested well only
> > using bash.
> 
> What gives you that idea?
> 
> For example, a lot of recent bug fixes have to do with zsh, but that's
> because zsh got really popular all of a sudden due to its use as
> /bin/sh in MacOS X.  Until recently, hardly anybody used 'configure'
> with 'zsh', and so nobody noticed zsh's bugs.

I recall some bugs with vendor sh's also, with the usual derogatory comments
about those.  zsh gets more attention, no surprise there.

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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