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Re: _AC_CACHE_DUMP simplified


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: _AC_CACHE_DUMP simplified
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 07:16:38 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.9i

* Stepan Kasal wrote on Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 12:26:16AM CET:
> 
> There is a second patch which documents the ^ issue.

This is already in the docs:
|  On some Posix-like platforms, `!' and `^' are special too, so they
|  should be avoided.

> address@hidden ^
> address@hidden ^ quoting
> +Always quote @samp{^}.  For example @command{/bin/sh} on Solaris 10
> +chokes on @samp{echo ^a}.
> +

I don't think it chokes.  It simply allows ^ as replacement for the
pipe.  (No, I did not remember this the last time I posted in this
thread, sorry; but Sven Mascheck's pages note this IIRC).

Cheers,
Ralf




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