Re: [Zope-dev] ./configure on Zope27HEAD with Python 2.2.2

2003-06-19 Thread Jamie Heilman
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

Re: [Zope-dev] ./configure on Zope27HEAD with Python 2.2.2

2003-06-19 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
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

Re: [Zope-dev] ./configure on Zope27HEAD with Python 2.2.2

2003-06-19 Thread Chris McDonough
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)) ___ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cro

Re: [Zope-dev] ./configure on Zope27HEAD with Python 2.2.2

2003-06-19 Thread Jamie Heilman
> Does anyone care enough to fix configure to work properly on BSD? i=$(($i+1)) -- Jamie Heilman http://audible.transient.net/~jamie/ "You came all this way, without saying squat, and now you're trying to tell me a '56 Chevy can beat a '47 Buick in a dead quarter mile? I like

Re: [Zope-dev] ./configure on Zope27HEAD with Python 2.2.2

2003-06-19 Thread Chris McDonough
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

[Zope-dev] ./configure on Zope27HEAD with Python 2.2.2

2003-06-19 Thread PieterB
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"