Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> Whatever happened to the old tried-but-true:
> i=`expr $i + 1`
nothing, its just overkill
> I suspect using expr is more portable to the whole family of
> sh-derived shells than any of the more new-fangled ways.
Arithmetic expansion has been around for a long time
Jamie Heilman writes:
> > Does anyone care enough to fix configure to work properly on BSD?
>
> i=$(($i+1))
Whatever happened to the old tried-but-true:
i=`expr $i + 1`
Running an external process may be slower, but you don't need to run
./configure all that often unless you're developi
Cool, thanks!
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 20:52, Jamie Heilman wrote:
> > Does anyone care enough to fix configure to work properly on BSD?
>
> i=$(($i+1))
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> Does anyone care enough to fix configure to work properly on BSD?
i=$(($i+1))
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Thanks for the warning. I know very little about BSD's shell (I don't
even know what the default BSD shell is).
FWIW, the need for bash is mentioned in INSTALL.txt (although I admit I
thought it would work under other shells).
Does anyone care enough to fix configure to work properly on BSD?
On
Hi,
Just ran ./configure using Python 2.2.2. I got the following output:
(on FreeBSD 5.0)
Configuring Zope installation
Testing for an acceptable Python interpreter...
Python version 2.2.2 found at /usr/local/bin/python
let: arith: syntax error: "i = i + 1"
