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

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Tue May 20 21:51:29 CEST 2003


On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 12:41:46PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
> 
> 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

Wrong too. They just have to be quoted correctly when nesting.

Rich



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