"Gary V. Vaughan" <gary@xxxxxxx> writes: > it appears that pdksh is confused over what the posix behaviour should > be :-( Yup. That part of the POSIX spec is confusing, but if you look in 2.2.2 <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_02> it says The portion of the quoted string from the initial backquote and the characters up to the next backquote that is not preceded by a backslash, having escape characters removed, defines that command whose output replaces "`...`" Here "escape characters" means backslashes followed by $, `, ", \, or newline and hence "`echo \"hi\"`" is evaluated by running the command echo "hi" not echo \"hi\" So pdksh is incorrect here when it is running in POSIX mode. Pdksh seems to be relatively unmaintained now. Can whoever is using it in this thread (sorry, I've lost track) please file a bug report with whoever's in charge of his copy? It's clearly broken. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
