@tk-ecotelecom, thanks for your PR! By analyzing the history of the files in this pull request, we identified @oxij, @edolstra and @zimbatm to be potential reviewers.

@oxij What would happen if there was a space? (This is a rhetorical question, since you clearly have no idea how to write a shell script. Oh, and for the love of $DEITY, please test your code before you say more stupid things.)

@oxij So, now you are saying that tooling which is as old as UNIX itself has changed semantics as opposed to the simpler explanation that in 1998 you didn't know what you were doing (something which is ostensibly true in 2017)? Bold, very bold.

@oxij You should learn to recognize a superior force when you meet one.

From 1996: http://www.fnal.gov/docs/products/bash/bashref.htm, we read:

If value is not given, the variable is assigned the null string. All values undergo tilde expansion, parameter and variable expansion, command substitution, arithmetic expansion, and quote removal (detailed below). If the variable has its `-i' attribute set (see the description of the declare builtin in section Bash Builtin Commands), then value is subject to arithmetic expansion even if the $((...)) syntax does not appear (see section Arithmetic Expansion). Word splitting is not performed, with the exception of "$@" as explained below. Filename expansion is not performed.

Sure, I know that bash semantics changes over time, but you are just using that to hide your mistake from other ignorant people who do not understand this is irrelevant in this case.

I understand why autoconf does what it does; you apparently do not. I am not going to give another free lecture, btw.

When will you figure out that it's better to just not say anything, because of the difficulty you have with producing true statements?

@tk-ecotelecom thank you

0xABAB: Why do you respond like that? I'm perceiving your message as both angry and arrogant. It seems completely uncalled for.

Jeez... Let's all be adults and move on...

@bjornfor Persistent insistence on sharing incompetence can elicit such a response.