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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] configure: check whether shell is capable of parameter
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Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

> 'configure' script uses parameter substring extensively. It is Posix shell
> feature. Original Bourne shell does not have such features. Some systems
> still ships such shells as /bin/sh (for compatibility reasons -- shell
> scripts written on those platforms are expected to work on 1990's systems).

pushed, finally.

d