Re: pkg-config-0.25nb1 on MirBSD

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 20:06, David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
> Setting 'false' to '! :' is probably best.
> ':' is a shell builtin that does nothing (after its args have been
> expanded) and generates a success status. The '!' negates the status.

OTOH, this breaks in other places:

sed: 1: "s!@FALSE@!! :!g": bad flag in substitute command: ':'

I will stick with /usr/bin/false.

--Benny.


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