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bug#17774: AIX and lbracket ([) program - will not install on AIX using
From: |
Michael Felt |
Subject: |
bug#17774: AIX and lbracket ([) program - will not install on AIX using installp |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Jun 2014 08:23:49 +0200 |
Well, you guys are the experts. I was trying to be "smart" - thinking that
lbracket 'required' the closing right bracket to keep the shell syntax
checkers happy. Maybe I am expecting too much from my shells need to check
syntax.
FYI - It seems to be working as expected, rather designed - so I shall make
some specialized 'buildaix' components to get around the filenameing
problem.
Will keep you posted.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:16 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 06/17/2014 02:50 PM, Michael Felt wrote:
> > FYI: the program runs fine, and even from the command line (the extra ]
> at
> > the end must satisify the ksh syntax checking).
>
> Rather, the 'test' binary and the 'lbracket' binary differ in one
> crucial aspect: 'lbracket' requires its last argument in argv[] to be
> "]". It is not ksh, but lbracket itself that requires the matching ],
> and it is this fact that allows us to obey POSIX while still allowing '[
> --help' to produce help text, even though 'test --help' cannot do so
> (that is, '[' has an escape hatch that 'test' does not).
>
> --
> Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
>
>
- bug#17774: AIX and lbracket ([) program - will not install on AIX using installp, Michael Felt, 2014/06/13
- bug#17774: AIX and lbracket ([) program - will not install on AIX using installp, Paul Eggert, 2014/06/13
- bug#17774: AIX and lbracket ([) program - will not install on AIX using installp, Michael Felt, 2014/06/14
- bug#17774: AIX and lbracket ([) program - will not install on AIX using installp, Michael Felt, 2014/06/14
- bug#17774: AIX and lbracket ([) program - will not install on AIX using installp, Michael Felt, 2014/06/17
- bug#17774: AIX and lbracket ([) program - will not install on AIX using installp, Eric Blake, 2014/06/17
- bug#17774: AIX and lbracket ([) program - will not install on AIX using installp,
Michael Felt <=
- bug#17774: AIX and lbracket ([) program - will not install on AIX using installp, Michael Felt, 2014/06/18