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Re: Shellology: ksh93 from OpenIndiana ${1+"$@"}
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Pavel Raiskup |
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Re: Shellology: ksh93 from OpenIndiana ${1+"$@"} |
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Sun, 10 Jan 2016 16:18:14 +0100 |
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On Sunday 13 of December 2015 20:07:59 Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 12/10/2015 05:55 AM, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> > Is this issue worth documenting in Shellology section
> > withing autoconf.info? This probably should be fixed somehow in libtool,
> > but I'm not yet sure what is the proper way.
>
> It should be documented.
>
> I suggest changing Autoconf and Libtool to recommend and use just the
> "$@" form. This is because the shells that mishandled "$@" are now
> museum pieces and are no longer worth worrying about porting to, whereas
> the shells that mishandle ${1+"$@"} are still in use.
If libtool/configure was able to throw fatal error very soon for such
museum shell, I would agree. Something which would encourage end-user to
obtain a bit newer shell.. And such check should be probably documented
too?
Pavel
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