GNU bug report logs - #18612
non-portable shell substitution in configure.ac

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 19:23:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 18612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18612: [platform-testers] Emacs pretest 24.3.94
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 22:47:01 +0300

> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 15:22:41 -0400
> From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
> 
> On thing I noticed, is that "configure.ac" (and thus "./configure")
> has the following statement (line 38):
>      srcdir="/${srcdir:0:1}${srcdir:2}"
> 
> I believe these are bash-specific variable expansions, not posix-compatible.
> 
> This appears in an MINGW-related "if" block, so I guess most of the time it is not encountered.

MinGW uses only Bash.
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