On 02 Dec 2023 21:55, Paul Eggert wrote:
> -if test -z "$PERL"; then
> +case $PERL in
AS_CASE ?
-mike
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On 2023-12-02 19:29, Zack Weinberg wrote:
`grep -q` *is* in POSIX, but I seem to recall tripping over a
system that didn't have it (probably either a Solaris successor, or AIX)
during the run-up to Autoconf 2.71.
Solaris 10 /usr/bin/grep does not support -e, -E, -f, -F, -q, or -x.
Solaris 10
On Sat, Dec 2, 2023, at 9:08 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 02 Dec 2023 15:53, Karl Berry wrote:
>> Exit status yes, but at least historically, grep -q has been
>> considered non-portable, in favor of grep ... >/dev/null.
>
> i get that `grep -q` is something historically we've avoided, but i
> thi
On 02 Dec 2023 15:53, Karl Berry wrote:
> also, can we really not trust the exit status of grep ?
> if echo "$PERL" | grep -q '[\t ]'; then
>
> Exit status yes, but at least historically, grep -q has been considered
> non-portable, in favor of grep ... >/dev/null.
i get that `grep
echo "$PERL" | grep '[ \t]'
I don't think there's any portable way to use \t to insert a tab in a
shell string, besides literally. There's something like
tab=`printf '\t'`
.. "$tab" ...
but I don't see a need to go that far here. I just used a literal tab char.
also, can we really not
On 27 May 2023 19:12, Karl Berry wrote:
> I (finally) installed this patch to quit early if the perl path has
> spaces. Thanks.
>
> As for MKDIR_P and INSTALL, I guess it is somewhere in the
> prerequisite/autoconf stuff. I suppose it would be rare that they would
> be found in a path with spaces
I (finally) installed this patch to quit early if the perl path has
spaces. Thanks.
As for MKDIR_P and INSTALL, I guess it is somewhere in the
prerequisite/autoconf stuff. I suppose it would be rare that they would
be found in a path with spaces while perl was not, so I think it's ok to
let that g
But anyway, patch for the Perl path attached.
Thanks. Your method seems as good as any to me.
I thought about using
'grep -q' and checking the exit code, but maybe this version is more
portable.
Indeed, grep -q is not portable. It's necessary to >/dev/null instead.
--thanks ag
Karl Berry , Fri Apr 21 2023 23:57:12 GMT+0200
(Central European Summer Time)
Thanks for the report, Dan, and for looking into this, Bogdan.
#!User bins/perl
Apart from anything else, this cannot be solved. Shebang lines do not
support quoting.
Thus I think what we should do is ha
Thanks for the report, Dan, and for looking into this, Bogdan.
#!User bins/perl
Apart from anything else, this cannot be solved. Shebang lines do not
support quoting.
Thus I think what we should do is have configure give a better error
message when the Perl path contains whitespace,
Hello.
Thank you for the bug report. The problem is a bit more complicated,
unfortunately. At least from my point of view.
I did a bit of an analysis. The problem can be replicated on current
master on a Linux - just do
ln -s /usr/bin 'User bins'
export PATH='User bins':$PAT
VER=1.16.4
Building "automake"
checking whether make supports nested variables... no
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-mingw64
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-mingw64
checking for a BSD-compatible install... ./lib/install-sh -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checki
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