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Re: Style question $()

Zack Weinberg wrote:

> Groan.  I'm looking at this now and it's horrid.  I don't see a clean
> solution either.
>
> Actually, it looks like the outer sed subst will do the job of the
> inner one, have you tried that?  (might be too fragile, but...)

Possibly, but ...by_configure@ is used in other places, so that's
out.

>
>
> We do insist on POSIX make, and that has `include' right?  We could
> dump out a `config.make' and read that in the subdirs.

I don't remember whether POSIX make has an include, I'll look later.

PD KSH v5.2.12 96/10/29 [Interix: 1998/11/27]
does have the features I need.  (I don't believe $() was added
for Interix).  Is that an old enough ksh?

Donn