From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: ./configure script prototype Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:03:13 +0100 Message-ID: <4378DF71.3060103@op5.se> References: <43788078.4040403@op5.se> <437880AC.3040101@op5.se> <20051114132956.GT30496@pasky.or.cz> <20051114181958.GD20749@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 14 20:05:56 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ebjbq-0006CV-BF for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:03:19 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751242AbVKNTDP (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:03:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751243AbVKNTDP (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:03:15 -0500 Received: from linux-server1.op5.se ([193.201.96.2]:3012 "EHLO smtp-gw1.op5.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751242AbVKNTDP (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:03:15 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.19] (unknown [213.88.215.14]) by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D336BD01 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:03:13 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc3 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Git Mailing List In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Joel Becker wrote: > > >>On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 02:29:56PM +0100, Petr Baudis wrote: >> >>>Dear diary, on Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 01:18:52PM CET, I got a letter >>>where Andreas Ericsson said that... >>> >>>> --prefix=*) >>>> prefix=${1##*=} >> >> ${i# and ${i% are POSIX, iirc. > > > They may be in POSIX, but they sure as h*ll aren't portable. > A bit funny really. I've already said I'll change them to some sed thing, so the last 16 emails on this thread have been purely academic. I guess more people than me are bored by mondays. > If you want to do a "configure" script (and I'm not sure it's worth it), Perhaps not. I was under the impression that Junio was for it to simplify the possible move of binaries to GIT_EXEC_PATH. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231