On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 01:44:47PM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > On 08/06/2010 13:14, Steve McKinty wrote: >> If I wrote a portable configure script which contained something >> like: >> >> if [ vax ]; then >> do vaxy setup >> else if [ u3b ]; then >> do AT&T setup >> else if [ sun ]; then >> do Solaris setup >> endif >> >> it would work unchanged on all those architectures. Take out the >> vax and u3b commands and it will then crash when run on Solaris. > > The same script will fail on Ububtu as well - I just checked they don't > exist there.
And technically, this will continue to work as expected, with an extra error message like: test.sh: vax: not found. Since a "command not found" evaluates to "false", the logic would still be intact. Venky. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-arc mailing list opensolaris-arc@opensolaris.org
