-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, May 10, 2002, at 08:55 AM, Max Horn wrote: > At 8:41 Uhr -0400 10.05.2002, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: >> On Friday, May 10, 2002, at 07:52 AM, Max Horn wrote: >> >>> Is it because of spacial chars in $verstring that break since it's >>> not quoted? What exactly is a value of "$verstring" that makes it >>> choke? It shouldn't be caused by spaces, since those would break zsh, >>> too, wouldn't they? >> >> There are of course spaces in $verstring, and strangely enough that >> _is_ what's wrong. Each shell uses an internal implementation of >> "test" it seems. When bash sees "test -n foo bar baz" it realizes that >> makes no sense, and returns 2 (false). When zsh sees this, it seems to >> just accept everything after "foo", including operators, as detritus >> and returns 0 (true) since foo isn't the null string. Bash is right of >> course, we've just been relying on zsh's incorrect behavior. >> >> Go ahead and try the command below, and then try it with zsh instead >> of bash. Isn't that bizarre? >> >> bash -c 'test -n foo bar baz; echo $?' > > Ouch, yes! Ugly, very ugly indeed. Of course the "proper" fix would be > to just use quotes, but we already know that's not working eitehr since > zsh does weird quoting, too... <sigh>
This is all being done with bas as a symlink? has anyone tried copying bash to /sw/bin/sh and seeing if it still does not work? Bash entgers into sh compatibility mode when it is invoked as sh...I don't think a symlink is enough. If bash is the problem, why does it work so well on other distros? is it a kernel issue? - -chris zubrzycki - - -- PGP public key: http://homepage.mac.com/beren/publickey.txt ID: 0xA2ABC070 Fingerprint: 26B0 BA6B A409 FA83 42B3 1688 FBF9 8232 A2AB C070 ======================================================== "Sadly, text alone cannot convey the depths of my sarcasm." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (Darwin) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8284E+/mCMqKrwHARAlq7AJ9nA0S+MKmYMYbabczO4EynvTtECACcDRUa IEFbgX32KkYf5ACARAs/DqQ= =sKA1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
