>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> From: Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:51:14 +0100
> Thanks.
>> Stop using the idiom "test && action" in favor of "if test; then
>> action; fi".
> Why? does it do any harm in some situations?
With set -e it cannot be used (unless you want to assert something)
since it is likely to exit with failure.
>> - cp $xref_files_orig "$work_bak"
>> + # The following line improves `cp $xref_files_orig "$work_bak"'
>> + # by preserving the directory parts. Think of
>> + # cp chap1/main.aux chap2/main.aux $work_bak.
>> + tar cf - $xref_files_orig | (cd "$work_bak" && tar xf -)
> Can you please describe the situation where texi2dvi is run on a
> directory tree like the comment above suggests? I didn't think this
> could happen.
well, how about this:
~/src/thl % grep include th-langage.tex nostromo Err 1
% \includecomment{}%
% \includecomment{inprogress}
\include{THL.1/langages}
\include{THL.1/regexp}
\include{THL.1/automates}
\include{THL.1/grammaires}
\include{THL.1/cfg}
\include{THL.1/parsage}
\include{THL.1/anldet}
\include{THL.1/normalisation}
\include{THL.2/pda}
\include{THL.2/cfg}
\include{THL.2/decidability}
\include{THL.2/tabulation}
\include{THL.2/tag}
That's the very document that behaved weirdly. See that there are two
cfg.tex.
> The problem with this replacement is that on non-Posix platforms it
> requires yet another ported utility (Tar) and a very reliable support
> in the shell for Posix-style (command...) semantics. I think we
> should consider the merits and demerits of this.
Are you seriously telling me that tar might not be available on some
platform we want to support?
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