On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 06:45:05 +0900 Norbert Preining <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Gavin Smith wrote: > > "...the Bourne shell does not systematically split > > variables and back-quoted expressions, in particular on > > the right-hand side of assignments and in the argument > > of case." > > Gavin, texi2dvi starts with > /bin/sh > that means it can be *any* shell including dash (POSIX). > > You cannot expect bash behaviour then. > > Norbert > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > PREINING, Norbert > http://www.preining.info JAIST, > Japan TeX Live & Debian > Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 > ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bourne shell is not Bash. However you cannot expect the implementation to be 100% compliant, people make errors. Whether my patch fixes an error in texi2dvi or works around a bug in bash's sh is unimportant. The patch is tiny, does not decrease maintainability and fixes an error, so there is no reason not to apply it.
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