Jon Seymour <jon.seym...@gmail.com> writes: > As it stands, I can't use bash's POSIX mode to verify the validity or > otherwise of a POSIX script because bash won't report these kinds of > errors - even when running in POSIX mode.
You can't do that anyway: POSIX mode does not disable proper extensions to POSIX, only those that conflict with POSIX. Specifically, in the case of the test utility, POSIX makes the behaviour unspecified when a three argument invocation does not match the POSIX-defined binary operators. > There is an --enable-strict-posix (?) configuration option. Will this do > what I expect? That just switches the default for POSIX mode. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
