John Cotton Ericson wrote:
On 9/25/23 10:24, Zack Weinberg wrote:
It is ultimately ldv's call, but Jacob's experiment is not good enough
for me to approve.
So I saw Jacob's research as not demonstrating using functions is
*definitely* OK, but that has indicating it *might* be OK. Does
>> On Mon, Sep 25, 2023, at 10:57 AM, John Cotton Ericson wrote:
>>> Sure. If they show up, we can definitely revert it. But what happens
>>> if they *don't* show up? What do you think in that case?
>>>
>> How long are you prepared to stick to your position? How many angry
>> e- mails are you prepa
On 9/25/23 11:06, Zack Weinberg wrote:
For clarity, I was talking about the overhead of
_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL, not the overhead of functions themselves.
Great!
It is unclear to me whether bourne-ish shells that were new in March
13 1992 that still didn't support shell functions, or whether
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023, at 10:57 AM, John Cotton Ericson wrote:
> On 9/25/23 10:24, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
>> It is ultimately ldv's call, but Jacob's experiment is not good
>> enough for me to approve.
>>
> So I saw Jacob's research as not demonstrating using functions is
> *definitely* OK, but that
On 9/25/23 10:24, Zack Weinberg wrote:
It is ultimately ldv's call, but Jacob's experiment is not good enough
for me to approve.
So I saw Jacob's research as not demonstrating using functions is
*definitely* OK, but that has indicating it *might* be OK. Does that
sound better?
The thing i
On Fri, Sep 22, 2023, at 5:14 PM, John Cotton Ericson wrote:
> On 9/21/23 22:31, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
>> Zack Weinberg wrote:
>>>
>>> Um. I don't think you can use shell functions in this file (or in
>>> config.guess), for the same reason you can't use $(...).
>>
>> It may be worth noting that th
On 9/21/23 22:31, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
Zack Weinberg wrote:
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023, at 3:52 PM, John Ericson wrote:
...
# Functions
###
+# Invalid configuration; display a message and exit
+#
+# Param 1: configuration
+# Param 2: message
+invalid_config () {
+ echo "Invalid config
Zack Weinberg wrote:
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023, at 3:52 PM, John Ericson wrote:
...
# Functions
###
+# Invalid configuration; display a message and exit
+#
+# Param 1: configuration
+# Param 2: message
+invalid_config () {
+ echo "Invalid configuration '$1': $2" 1>&2
+ exit
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023, at 3:52 PM, John Ericson wrote:
...
> # Functions
> ###
>
> +# Invalid configuration; display a message and exit
> +#
> +# Param 1: configuration
> +# Param 2: message
> +invalid_config () {
> + echo "Invalid configuration '$1': $2" 1>&2
> + exit 1
> +}
Um.
There were indeed some cases we displayed the message but then forgot to
exit!
---
config.sub | 44 +---
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
diff --git a/config.sub b/config.sub
index 79a960d..7d6c7be 100755
--- a/config.sub
+++ b/config.sub
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