Dmitry - I've received another bug report from a Solaris 10 user about config.guess breaking because of using $(...).
I implore you to revert to good old `...`. As far as I can see, config.* should be maximally portable, since after all their purpose is to identify systems, and that means using `...`, not $(). There is, so far as the previous discussion turned up, no technical gain, only loss. It seems crazily wrong for every package that uses config.* to suddenly have to go look for a shell that supports $() just to run the config scripts on old-enough systems. config.* is used far more widely than just autoconf. Thanks for considering. --karl
