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Shell portability documentation in autoconf manual
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jens . schmidt35 |
Subject: |
Shell portability documentation in autoconf manual |
Date: |
Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:29:36 +0200 (CEST) |
Hi.
I am referring to the autoconf manual that I found on savannah.org under path
/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.63.
Some more issues, continuing the list I started in my previous mail:
Issue 3:
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Another reason to be careful with "set -e" on Solaris 10: A failing command
substitution may not be caught by any means if option "-e" is set. The shell
bails out immediately:
$ ( set -e; foo=`false` || echo "foo"; echo "bar" ); echo "baz"
baz
Issue 4:
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Older Bashes (mine is 2.05b.0(1)) may forget exit values if there is a trap on
exit set and if the trap consists of one succeeding external command only.
Seems to be fixed in latest Bashes.
$ /bin/bash -c 'trap "/bin/true" 0; exit 2'; echo $?
0
$ /bin/bash -c 'trap ":; /bin/true" 0; exit 2'; echo $?
2
I hit that problem when I had a "rm -f " clean-up trap in a canned sequence in
a makefile, where the sequence failed but "make" did not take any notice of
that fact due to this bug ... not too exotic an use-case, I think.
Regards
Jens
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