> Why is this broken? I was only relaying a problem someone else reported; it seemed odd to me, but without 2.05 lying around, I couldn't test it.
> It's true that you can't parse the latter line with other shells. > So perhaps what you're saying is that, if you use Bash 2.05 to > run 'configure', you're stuck with using Bash 2.05 to do everything > else, too? Ah - rereading the original report, it was indeed the case that he went back to 2.04 since 2.05 was a bit flaky (he was doing test work to try and get DJGPP programs working properly on Win2K/WinXP). Mystery solved. > > it is probably still worth mentioning in the autoconf manual's > > section on portable shell programming. > > Yes, that makes sense. I'll whip up something tomorrow.
