Re: Non-POSIX shells

[ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org>]

On 5 Mar 2002, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> If we're going to require something funky it should be a reasonable
> build tool instead of make/autoconf/libtool jury-rigging. ;-)
> 
> I don't think there's a reason to make Solaris users install bash,
> it's easy to use `` instead of $().

if by `easy' you mean `can be solved with 5 to 10 minutes of shell
escaping trickery', then yes.
If by `easy' you mean `just change $() to ``' then it's not.

the patch is in Kenneth's mailbox.

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