On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 02:46:24PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> Luigi Rizzo <lu...@freebsd.org> writes:
> > Log:
> > Clarify the behaviour of conditionals when dealing with comparisons.
> > In particular, point out that string comparison can only use != and ==
> > (how weird, given that the underlying call to strcmp returns more
> > information), that floating point values are correctly interpreted
> > as numbers, and that the left-hand side must be a variable expansion.
>
> Any chance of fixing items 1 and 3?
item 1 is easy except perhaps for Locale issues which however should not
be a big deal in this context.
item 3 should also be easy.
But the thing i wonder about is whether there is any standard that
mandates this beviour, or we are relatively free to make enhancements
to our "make" program.
cheers
luigi
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