Re: [PATCH] configure: check whether shell is capable of parameter substring processing

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] configure: check whether shell is capable of parameter\r
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+Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:\r
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+> 'configure' script uses parameter substring extensively. It is Posix shell\r
+> feature. Original Bourne shell does not have such features. Some systems\r
+> still ships such shells as /bin/sh (for compatibility reasons -- shell\r
+> scripts written on those platforms are expected to work on 1990's systems).\r
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+pushed, finally.\r
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+d\r
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