> I changed the ` backticks to the $() construct on recommendations > from one of my scripting books, which alleges that backticks are > old-fashioned.
BTW, you might read the `autoconf' documentation which has a few, quite long chapters on writing portable make and shell scripts. http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/ > I really have no idea, but all of my scripts are done with the $() > construct. Of course in the makefile it has to become $$(foo). According to the abovementioned documentation, the shell construct `$(...)' is not supported everywhere; in particular, recent Solaris and IRIX versions of `sh' don't have it. > I doubt we'll ever come up with something everyone likes. I'm > learning a lot, though, so I don't mind all the conflicting > suggestions. :) It has nothing to do with `everybody likes it' or not. I think the main goal is to develop something which works everywhere. If we assume `GNU make' and `bash', it's far easier to write clean scripts. If we assume best portability, we have to circumvent a lot of problems... Werner _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
