RE: [avr-libc-dev] RE: [avr-gcc-list] noavr/lib/avr25/attiny13a/Makefile.in

[Weddington, Eric]

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> noavr/lib/avr25/attiny13a/Makefile.in
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> As Weddington, Eric wrote:
> 
> [Things that don't work on Solaris' /bin/sh]
> 
> > > . shell arithmetics, use expr instead.
> 
> > Ok, I'm not a Unix guy. What do you mean by the last statement
> > above? Does this mean that my solution won't work on Solaris?
> 
> Ah well, you're right.  It's the $(( ... )) stuff, that has been
> introduced by Posix but is not available on Solaris' elderly /bin/sh.
> 
> However, without really running the script modified by your patch, I
> couldn't figure out why you were using $(( )) at all.  After all,
> there's no real arithmetic expression inside the parenthesis.  The
> test command's -gt/-lt operators force their operands to be treated as
> integer values anyway.

Oh, so I won't even need the $(( )) stuff at all then? I can work up a new 
patch.