Re: Directs makeinfo and texi2html output to logfiles (issue 5645046)

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julien Rioux" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
> Yes, the DEPTH=... confuses bash, so eval is needed. Please try
> something like the attached though. It removes all the exec stuff and
> will be much easier to understand for future contributors. The exec
> stuff is needed only for complex redirection, for example if you
> wanted stderr to appear both on the terminal and in the log file. But
> currently we just redirect both stdout and stderr to the log file, and
> this scenario does not need complex exec stuff.
>
> Regards,
> Julien

eval $1 >& $2

gives:

./new-run-check.sh: 2: Syntax error: Bad fd number - finger trouble on the 
redirect.  eval $1 &> $2 simply doesn't redirect the output - it appears on 
the terminal and no logfile is created.  I spent quite a long time a few 
weeks ago getting this to work and was surprised it didn't, but convinced 
myself that the way I arrived at is pretty much the only solution.  I 
understand what you say about maintainability, but I've commented it quite a 
bit and the script could just be removed if it was too confusing, so I'm not 
convinced it's worth too much time repeating what I did earlier to try to 
get this to work.

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Phil Holmes