[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Patch for Solaris and another Solaris problem

[Greg Stark]

Fabian Franz <FabianFranz at gmx.de> writes:

> > You were right, that does the trick. But it shouldn't hurt to apply
> > the fix to make it work with the default shell on Solaris.
> 
> Backticks `` are afair deprecated and obsoleted by $()-syntax and should no 
> longer be used.

no, backticks are fine POSIX syntax too. They just can't be nested. It doesn't
hurt to change this if it's really the only thing that breaks on solaris
/bin/sh.

-- 
greg