Jim Meyering meyering.net> writes:
> That is because bash and dash work differently:
> $ for i in bash dash; do $i -c 'a=odd; a=ok b=$a; echo '$i' $b'; done
> bash ok
> dash odd
Good catch. And yes, this is already documented in the autoconf manual on
shell portability; the order of assi
I've just pushed the following.
It fixes a nasty little portability problem:
>From 7c385af22c99df5eceda1e82d7aa595e6d5cb796 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:24:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] vc-list-files: avoid failure when /bin/sh is dash
* build-aux
