On Fri, 1 May 2009, Eric Blake wrote:
In the grand scheme of things, 'if test... fi' and 'case ... esac' are
both shell builtins, so no change in efficiency on the number of processes
The 'test' command is not always a shell builtin, although it usually
is these days. That is why there is a
Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Dave Hart on 5/1/2009 9:15 AM:
> >> Since this variable is under your complete control, I would have written
> >>
> >> if test $ntp_cache_flush = 1; then
> >> ...
> >> fi
> >>
> >> rather than a case statement.
> >
> > That's a fine choice. I think for my purpose
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According to Dave Hart on 5/1/2009 9:15 AM:
>> Since this variable is under your complete control, I would have written
>>
>> if test $ntp_cache_flush = 1; then
>> ...
>> fi
>>
>> rather than a case statement.
>
> That's a fine choice. I think for m
Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Dave Hart on 5/1/2009 5:37 AM:
>> I wanted a
>> version number to bump that would cause configure to ignore
>> config.cache results from prior versions.
>
> Interesting concept. However, I'm worried about one thing - it is also
> possible to invalidate the cache b
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 10:15:28AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, 1 May 2009, Patrick Welche wrote:
>
>> I haven't seen breakages without this patch, but it seems logical to me...
>
> supposedly "X11R7" moved everything back into non-specific paths such as
> /usr/bin
My system (NetBSD) has
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Patrick Welche wrote:
I haven't seen breakages without this patch, but it seems logical to me...
supposedly "X11R7" moved everything back into non-specific paths such as
/usr/bin
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I haven't seen breakages without this patch, but it seems logical to me...
Thoughts?
Patrick
diff --git a/lib/autoconf/libs.m4 b/lib/autoconf/libs.m4
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--- a/lib/autoconf/libs.m4
+++ b/lib/autoconf/libs.m4
@@ -236,21 +236,25 @@ m4_define([_AC_PATH_X_DIRECT],
# Check X
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According to Dave Hart on 5/1/2009 5:37 AM:
> I added -Winit-self unwisely to NTP's configure.ac without a test,
> resulting in spectacular failure for those with old-enough gcc [1].
> For those users, invalid results were cached left and right if they
I added -Winit-self unwisely to NTP's configure.ac without a test,
resulting in spectacular failure for those with old-enough gcc [1].
For those users, invalid results were cached left and right if they
enabled config.cache. At the time I repaired my mistake, I wanted a
version number to bump that
