Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Use $(..) instead of deprecated `..`

[Stefan Weil]

Am 08.06.2016 um 14:16 schrieb Maciej W. Rozycki:
> On Mon, 16 May 2016, Stefan Weil wrote:
> 
>> This fixes these warnings from shellcheck:
>>
>>     ^-- SC2006: Use $(..) instead of deprecated `..`
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>
>> More warnings from shellcheck for configure and other files
>> will be handled by later patches.
> 
>  Unlike `..` the $(..) Bourne shell construct is not fully portable, some 
> implementations do not recognise it.  Consequently this change potentially 
> breaks building QEMU on some systems, possibly in a non-obvious way, as 
> there's no explicit check for the presence this feature and a graceful 
> failure path included with this patch or the other one AFAICT.  We may or 
> may not care about those systems, but still this is a functional 
> regression and therefore I think there has to be a good reason for 
> introducing it.


As the $() construct was already used in QEMU code before this commit
(we had a mixture of both styles), I don't expect anything to break
which was not broken before.

Stefan

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