bug-gnulib
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Question about build-aux/bootstrap regarding $(...)


From: Akash Rawal
Subject: Question about build-aux/bootstrap regarding $(...)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 11:17:34 +0530
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.0

Hello everyone,

I observed that build-aux/bootstrap uses $(command) for command substitution which is known to be less portable than `command`.[1]

Is it on purpose? Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Akash Rawal.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.63/html_node/Shell-Substitutions.html#Shell-Substitutions

Attachment: patch.txt
Description: Text document


reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]