Re: Autoconf will (not?) detect cross-tools unprefixed

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Eric Blake wrote: The original posted of this thread should be smacked for the Subject:, and every followup poster (including me), for not adjusting it. :-/ * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 10:37:59PM CEST: I think we should keep a warning (so that unwary u

Bourne sh redirection, a loop variable, and ':'

Hello, is this nice little Bourne shell quirk already known? $ for i in 1 2 3 ; do : >x$i; done $ ls x1 It works when I use 'echo' instead of ':'. Seen with Solaris 10 sh, but also some other old shells IIRC. Cheers, Ralf ___ Autoconf mailing list

Re: Bourne sh redirection, a loop variable, and ':'

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > is this nice little Bourne shell quirk already known? > > $ for i in 1 2 3 ; do : >x$i; done > $ ls > x1 > > It works when I use 'echo' instead of ':'. > > Seen with Solaris 10 sh, but also some other old shell

Re: Automake

Lalit Seth wrote: > I am trying to learn Autoconf and Automake tools. There are few queries I have These are separate from gcc and each have their own list. I've set the reply-to list to autoconf@ since nothing below is really automake specific. > a) When compile happens it always have -g and -