[adding bug-autoconf in CC]
On Tuesday 22 November 2011, Gary V wrote:
Hi Eric,
On 22 Nov 2011, at 03:07, Eric Blake wrote:
On 11/21/2011 07:47 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
To safely use a non-literal first argument to `test', you must
always prepend a literal non-`-' character, but
On 11/22/2011 02:02 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
test a = $b
is just as likely to trigger improper evaluation in buggy test(1)
implementations as:
test $b = a
:-o For real? On non-museum pieces?
Okay, you've convinced me otherwise. It looks like even buggy versions
of test(1) at least
On Tuesday 22 November 2011, Eric Blake wrote:
touch =; test -f =; echo $?
This is problematic also with pdksh 5.2.14 on Debian:
$ pdksh -c 'touch ./=; test -f =; echo $?'
pdksh: test: =: missing second argument
2
and with /bin/sh on OpenBSD 4.6 as well:
$ /bin/sh -c 'touch ./=; test
On 11/21/2011 07:47 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
To safely use a non-literal first argument to `test', you must
always prepend a literal non-`-' character, but often the second
operand is a constant that doesn't begin with a `-' already, so
always use `test a = $b' instead of noisy `test X$b =
Hi Gary. Few more random nits...
On Monday 21 November 2011, Gary V wrote:
To safely use a non-literal first argument to `test', you must
always prepend a literal non-`-' character, but often the second
operand is a constant that doesn't begin with a `-' already, so
always use `test a = $b'
Hi Eric,
On 22 Nov 2011, at 03:07, Eric Blake wrote:
On 11/21/2011 07:47 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
To safely use a non-literal first argument to `test', you must
always prepend a literal non-`-' character, but often the second
operand is a constant that doesn't begin with a `-' already, so
Hi Stefano,
On 22 Nov 2011, at 03:13, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
Hi Gary. Few more random nits...
Thanks ;)
On Monday 21 November 2011, Gary V wrote:
To safely use a non-literal first argument to `test', you must
always prepend a literal non-`-' character, but often the second
operand is a
