-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, May 10, 2002, at 09:41 AM, Chris Zubrzycki wrote: > 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?
sorry to reply to myelf, but I forgot to say something. I have done this before, and have had no apparent side affects with 10.1.3. I removed /bin/sh, and copied bash to /bin/sh. everything still worked, AFAIK. HTH, - -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 ======================================================== "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (Darwin) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE828/T+/mCMqKrwHARAm9uAKCGC7BLfyv66YQujCsPXLDg7IMyOwCgv/JK XcCVcYG+lZi3l0YFzYIislQ= =zHqA -----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
