On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 12:10:52PM -0400, Earnie wrote:
> I'm not eggert but IMO there is always the ability to install a
> POSIX compliant shell in the local environment so we just force the
> requirement to have one for autotools. The quoted document was
> written when open source environments
On 8/14/2018 5:28 AM, Ben Elliston wrote:
Hi John
The Autoconf shell portability guide [1] says this about ${var:-value}
substitutions (which, I should point out, *are* in the POSIX shell):
${var:-value}
Old BSD shells, including the Ultrix sh, don't accept the colon
for any she
