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Re: Your recent change to gcc/configure.in
- To: rearnsha at arm dot com
- Subject: Re: Your recent change to gcc/configure.in
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 14 Nov 2000 01:31:07 -0200
- Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>, gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <200011131514.PAA21866@cam-mail2.cambridge.arm.com>
On Nov 13, 2000, Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com> wrote:
> Also, in autoconf files you should use 'test', not '['; since I believe
> that the latter is not as widely available on some obscure machines.
The actual reason is that `[' and `]' are the quote characters used by
autoconf, so using them as shell commands is inconvenient because you
have to remember to have them quoted. I don't know of any portability
issues.
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