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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115069: * configure.ac: test portability fix
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 21:40:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5281BF65.6090008@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <usppq6me5g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

Glenn Morris wrote:
> Works fine on my systems. I'm sure there are older ones where it
> doesn't, but are they still relevant?

Solaris 10 is still relevant (Oracle says they'll support it until
January 2021, and it's still widely used), and its /bin/sh 'test' command
isn't reliable with '=':

$ test '(' = ')'
test: argument expected




      reply	other threads:[~2013-11-12  5:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1Vg4E3-0000MO-B5@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2013-11-12  4:12 ` [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115069: * configure.ac: test portability fix Stefan Monnier
2013-11-12  4:34   ` Glenn Morris
2013-11-12  5:40     ` Paul Eggert [this message]

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