On Feb 14, 2009, at 10:41, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 9:41 AM, James Cloos <[email protected]> > wrote: >>>>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Huddleston <[email protected]> writes: >> >> Jeremy> I've been seeing some '+=' syntax in some bourne scripts >> lately, >> >> Jeremy> And now I see that libX11/acinclude.m4 hass it as well: >> Jeremy> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/18485 >> >> Damn. I thought I had fixed that. >> >> I added dolt to libX11 just before the revelation that += needed to >> be >> replaced. Commit b4b5893f has been pushed with the same change which >> was made to the dolt script in xserver: >> >> - *) args+=("$arg") >> + *) args@<:@${#ar...@]}@:>@="$arg" ;; >> >> My understanding is that that should be compatible with Bourne >> shells in >> general. >> >> Thanks for the heads up! > > That doesn't really work. doltlibtool and doltcompile are bash > scripts. So, in the first place, this won't cause a problem for > non-bash because those systems will just use regular libtool (look at > the top where it checks for bash). And the new syntax is still bash. > Bourne shells can't use arrays.
the += is actually new to bash-3.x ... it's not compatible with bash-2.x _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
