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Re: Patch to gcc_release
On Nov 25, 2001, "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 25 Nov 2001, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> > - PATH=~:$PATH;;
>> > + PATH=~:/usr/local/bin:$PATH;;
>>
>> I strongly suggest changing `~' to `$HOME'. Bourne shell knows
>> nothing about `~', even though bash expands it to $HOME.
> What then are your plans to install a non-POSIX sh on gcc.gnu.org (the
> only place this part of the code gets used)? What shell exactly do you
> have in mind that supports shell functions but not ~?
I have no such plans (and even if I had, I wouldn't be able to do
anything about them :-), but I know there are a lot of Bourne shells
that support shell functions but not `~'. I just dislike seeing
non-portable shell code when there's a trivial portable alternative.
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