Several snapshots on the same system?

[Andreas Schwab]

Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:

|> On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:21:49AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
|> > I'm not sure the GCC docs are the proper place to teach about all
|> > sorts of caveats of Unix shells.  The original Bourne shell does not
|> > even handle ~ especially, and other shells such as ksh and bash only
|> > handle ~ especially when it appears unquoted in the beginning of a
|> > command-line argument.
|> 
|> Recent versions of bash (I don't know what the minimum version number is)
|> only require the tilde to appear at the beginning of something that could
|> be a path, e.g.,
|> 
|>     --prefix=/this/is/a/~weird/patch
|> 
|> the tilde will not be expanded, but in
|> 
|>     --prefix=~/install
|> 
|> it will be.

No, it won't.  The expansion only occurs as part of an assignment.

Andreas.

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