From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78DC4431FAF for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 04:21:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id xR3qVN9cGf1z for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 04:21:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tesseract.cs.unb.ca (tesseract.cs.unb.ca [131.202.240.238]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 03C18431FAE for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 04:21:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fctnnbsc30w-156034089108.dhcp-dynamic.fibreop.nb.bellaliant.net ([156.34.89.108] helo=zancas.localnet) by tesseract.cs.unb.ca with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1StzeX-00072X-RK; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:21:19 -0300 Received: from bremner by zancas.localnet with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1StzeK-0008Bt-4g; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:21:04 -0300 From: David Bremner To: Tomi Ollila , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] configure: check whether shell is capable of parameter substring processing In-Reply-To: <1336071598-18930-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi> References: <1334589199-25894-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi> <1336071598-18930-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.13.2 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:21:04 -0300 Message-ID: <87zk6o84tb.fsf@zancas.localnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam_bar: - X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:21:22 -0000 Tomi Ollila writes: > 'configure' script uses parameter substring extensively. It is Posix shell > feature. Original Bourne shell does not have such features. Some systems > still ships such shells as /bin/sh (for compatibility reasons -- shell > scripts written on those platforms are expected to work on 1990's systems). pushed, finally. d