On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 03:48:49PM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote:
> I've seen this line in the dh_configure file of the mutt package and I'm
> asking some questions about this :
>
> 1 ) Is the exec necessary ? What does it stand for ?
It executes the configure script, as opposed to mearly calling
it and afterwards continuing execution; in effect, starts it
from the top.
> 2 ) What's the ${1+"$@"}
> the ${} means that it will be replaced by the output of the command
> inside but what's the 1+"$@" ?
It expands to all the parameters you gave to configure, if any.
It's just a more complex way of saying "$@", needed on some
broken systems (though I don't recall why).
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