[PATCH xserver] configure: use backticks rather than $() for commands

Matt Turner mattst88 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 7 16:16:00 PST 2010


On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca> wrote:
> This patch to xserver configure.ac is to increase code portability to
> non POSIX system by using backticks rather than $() for command
> substitution for BUILD_DATE and BUILD_TIME.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca>
> ---
>  configure.ac |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> index 7e2c6a5..eb92251 100644
> --- a/configure.ac
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -2094,9 +2094,9 @@ AC_TRY_COMPILE([
>
>  AC_DEFINE_DIR(PROJECTROOT, prefix, [Overall prefix])
>
> -BUILD_DATE="$(date +'%Y%m%d')"
> +BUILD_DATE="`date +'%Y%m%d'`"
>  AC_SUBST([BUILD_DATE])
> -BUILD_TIME="$(date +'1%H%M%S')"
> +BUILD_TIME="`date +'1%H%M%S'`"
>  AC_SUBST([BUILD_TIME])
>
>  DIX_CFLAGS="-DHAVE_DIX_CONFIG_H $XSERVER_CFLAGS"
> --
> 1.6.0.4

What kind of systems would these be?

Matt


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