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            Joe Marcus Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 20:40 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: >             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?
: 
: This will yield false positives as many (all?) contain embedded C code.
: We have been using one regexp that seems to work nicely: " == ".  For
: example:
: 
: @${FIND} ${WRKSRC} -name Makefile.in | ${XARGS} ${REINPLACE_CMD} -e \
:       's|" == "|" = "|g'
: 
: You don't typically find '"' on either side of a == in C.

heh...

Another option would be to add support for it to our test, maybe with
a warning... :-)

Warner
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