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Re: FW: Documentation of POSIXLY_CORRECT


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: FW: Documentation of POSIXLY_CORRECT
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:29:11 +0000 (UTC)
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Hello,

Eric Blake writes:
> By the way, if you want to be portable to Solaris /bin/sh, you have to use:
> 
> export POSIXLY_CORRECT
> POSIXLY_CORRECT=
> 
> (the two lines can appear in either order).

FWIW, you need to re-export a variable each time you change it; otherwise,
it is possible that the variable has the new value, but the environment
will propagate the old one; 'info Autoconf --index export' documents this.

Cheers,
Ralf





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