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Joe Marcus Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 16:52 -0400, Coleman Kane wrote:
: > On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 14:45 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
: > > On Thursday 15 May 2008 03:55:27 pm Stefan Farfeleder wrote:
: > > > stefanf 2008-05-15 19:55:27 UTC
: > > >
: > > > FreeBSD src repository
: > > >
: > > > Modified files:
: > > > bin/sh expand.c parser.c parser.h
: > > > Log:
: > > > Expand $LINENO to the current line number. This is required by
: > > SUSv3's "User
: > > > Portability Utilities" option.
: > > >
: > > > Often configure scripts generated by the autotools test if $LINENO
works
: > > and
: > > > refuse to use /bin/sh if not.
: > > >
: > > > Package test run by: pav
: > >
: > > This breaks the build of editors/openoffice-2
: > >
: > > Specifically, the libxslt configure script has two statements like this:
: > >
: > > if test "1" == "1"
: > > then
: > > blah blah
: > > endif
: > >
: > > Specifically note the "==" passed to test(1). POSIX says this should be
"=",
: > > and that's all our test(1) implements. The bash manpage for the
builtin-test
: > > command says:
: > >
: > > string1 == string2
: > > True if the strings are equal. = may be used in place of
== for
: > > strict POSIX compliance.
: > >
: > > IOW, it encourages "==". I'm not sure if we want to force the use of
bash for
: > > certain ports or if we want to just implement bash'isms in our tools as
we
: > > encounter them (or patch the port?). In this case the patch is not
: > > complicated (just replace the two '==' with '=' in libxslt's configure
: > > script).
: > >
: >
: > This is annoying... I had to clean this behavior up once recently in
: > someone else's script. POSIX "test" syntax has been "=" and not "==" for
: > a long time. Bash is not C... so I don't understand why the attempt to
: > document "==" as the "proper" operator. My thinking is the offending
: > script should be fixed with a patch that gets forwarded upstream to the
: > libxslt team (including a mention that /bin/sh and /bin/test are not
: > documented to support "==" by POSIX).
:
: This is one of the most pervasive bashisms around. We (gnome@)
: typically fix the script to use "=" then forward the information
: upstream. Solaris is also bit by this, so it's usually not a big deal
: to get upstream vendors to fix their scripts.
Maybe a 'grep ==' on all configure scripts should be SOP, eh?
Warner
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