On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 21:06 -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > This makes it sounds as if "export VAR=VALUE" were bash-specific, > but in fact this syntax is part of POSIX: > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/export.html True, although older versions didn't have this IIRC. And, there are still very popular, widely-used versions of UNIX where /bin/sh does not support "export VAR=value"; for example /bin/sh on Solaris (all current releases I'm aware of) does not support it. Cheers! _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
