Thanks Paul Point taken about using 'export' and '.' And, as it happens very valid, as I now have an AIX machine added to the mix. 2008/9/12 Paul Smith <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 16:45 +0100, Giles Anderson wrote: > > export ORAENV_ASK=NO > > export ORACLE_SID=SID1 > > source oraenv > > Not answering your question, but: please don't use this format. This > results in your configure file being egregiously and needlessly > bash-specific; it is not portable and will not run with POSIX-compliant > sh implementations. > > Instead, use: > > ORAENV_ASK=NO > ORACLE_SID=SID1 > export ORAENV_ASK ORACLE_SID > . oraenv > > Writing sh-compliant scripts is not much more onerous than writing bash > scripts, once you know the difference, and it's a huge boon to people > trying to use your code on systems where bash is not /bin/sh (even a > number of Linux distributions now use smaller, faster shells for /bin/sh > rather than bash). > > If you want an easy way to check, install ash or dash or similar on your > system and use those to run your configure script. > _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
