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Re: updated win32 macro

To: Alexandre Oliva <oliva at lsd dot ic dot unicamp dot br>
Subject: Re: updated win32 macro
From: "Lars J. Aas" <larsa at sim dot no>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 13:18:37 +0100
Cc: Robert Collins <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>, cygwin-apps at sources dot redhat dot com, autoconf at gnu dot org
References: <035401c0ac91$3ba21fd0$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> <022001c0accf$29b724d0$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> <orelvz60mr.fsf@guarana.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:51:08AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
: On Mar 14, 2001, "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au> wrote:
: 
: >     version 2.. returns true/false now. I've also updated te sample code
: > to reflect this
: 
: Better use `:' instead of `true'.  I'm not sure `:' is more portable,
: but at least it's a built-in in more shells than `true'.

I agree, but I'd rather have the implementation/optimization details hidden
in some autoconf-provided variables like $as_true and $as_false - it would
be less obfuscating.  Then you could set $as_true to ":" and perhaps $as_false
to "(exit 1)" if "false" for some reason does not work on a system.

  Lars J

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