Hello David,

* Dr. David Kirkby wrote on Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 07:56:24PM CET:
> I know its considered bad practice to check for an empty string with 
> something like:
> 
> if [ "$STR" = "" ] ; then
> 
> but what shells do actually break with this, and under what conditions?

It's not shells that break.  It's these kinds of issues:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.general/13706

Cheers,
Ralf

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