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Re: backward compatability of tools


From: Thomas E. Dickey
Subject: Re: backward compatability of tools
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 06:24:19 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, John Burger wrote:

> It seems to be explicitly against the philosophy of Autoconf to do
> anything in response to particular hardware or OS versions.  Rather,

back to the original point - changes were made to autoconf which made
it incompatible with known, widely-used versions of Bourne shell for
no better reason than nicety of implementation.

You don't need a special test for that.

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