Paul Eggert wrote:
> > This syntax is not portable in practice, as discussed in the Autoconf
> > manual[1].
>
> This shouldn't be a issue in configure scripts, since they should
> arrange to use a good shell.
I confirm: A gnulib testdir created through
./gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir=../
On 3/9/21 7:38 PM, Nick Bowler wrote:
The fix is simple; why not fix it?
In this case heirloom-sh is not an actual porting target but is merely a
tool being used to find portability bugs, and apparently it's generating
a false alarm, and I'd rather avoid code churn due to problems that
aren'
On 2021-03-09, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 3/9/21 6:45 PM, Nick Bowler wrote:
>> I routinely use heirloom-sh to suss out shell portability
>
> Does your project also have a problem on Solaris 10 because its /bin/sh
> also doesn't grok "if !"?
No idea. I do not presently have the ability to test on S
On 3/9/21 6:45 PM, Nick Bowler wrote:
I routinely use heirloom-sh to suss out shell portability
Does your project also have a problem on Solaris 10 because its /bin/sh
also doesn't grok "if !"?
If so, how/why does that happen? ./configure is supposed to re-exec with
a working shell, and thi
On 09/03/2021, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 3/9/21
6:29 PM, Nick Bowler wrote:
>> This syntax is not portable in practice, as discussed in the Autoconf
>> manual[1].
>
> This shouldn't be a issue in configure scripts, since they should
> arrange to use a good shell. If that isn't happening for some rea
On 3/9/21 6:29 PM, Nick Bowler wrote:
This syntax is not portable in practice, as discussed in the Autoconf
manual[1].
This shouldn't be a issue in configure scripts, since they should
arrange to use a good shell. If that isn't happening for some reason I'd
rather fix the underlying problem t
When using the conditional dependencies feature of Gnulib, several
functions are emitted into configure scripts that use 'if ! ...'.
This syntax is not portable in practice, as discussed in the Autoconf
manual[1]. Because in this instance the construct is emitted into
configure scripts, this has
