On Friday 31 December 2004 03:20 pm, Eric Blake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > The autoconf manual mentions nothing about the limitations of $(( )) > arithmetic expansion, other than the fact that $( ) command substition can > be confused with it when using subshells. POSIX requires arithmetic > expansion, but not all historical shells had it. I think it should be > mentioned in the shell substitutions section (10.5) of the manual, since > ash (the current default cygwin /bin/sh) has an unusual behavior, and > since Solaris 8 /bin/sh rejects it. I encountered this when investigating > failures of shell scripts generated as part of the autogen package. Or the test that was still using it. Thank you :-) I've now removed it from the enumeration option test. Cheers - Bruce _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
