-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 8/12/2008 9:40 AM: | On Aug 12 19:36, Dmitry Semyonov wrote: |> Hello all, |> |> -- begin -- |> $ bash -c '! true | false; echo $?' |> 0 |> |> $ ash -c '! true | false; echo $?' |> 1 |> -- end -- |> |> Mostly "if" conditions are affected by this issue.
The next release of the autoconf manual will also mention this portability pitfall, among others: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commitdiff;h=3ca7a51 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commitdiff;h=95dfc19 | | Use bash as sh. ash is only in the distro to run rebaseall. I won't | release a new version of ash any time soon, if it doesn't explicitely | affect rebase. Although, now that the bash package blindly installs /bin/sh, ash no longer needs a postinstall script. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEUEARECAAYFAkiiOW0ACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCVWQCgpVdDEwtww1IC7ii0SY2OfeQF yY8AmLB1xMSJ9V7DL2dsp1UOxkG2fCo= =EyAp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
