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Re: Possible bug in Makefile 3.81
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Micah Cowan |
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Re: Possible bug in Makefile 3.81 |
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Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:36:20 -0800 |
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Karl Berry wrote:
> Are there still Unixen for which [ is not portable?
>
> Portability isn't the problem with [. It's parsing.
>
> [ -n "$x" ]
>
> fails if x=] ... or did at one time anyway. Sorry for lack of details,
> it's been too many years.
Hm, I'd consider that to be a bug in the implementation, but yeah, I
could see that happening. I hope there aren't any left that do that, though.
POSIX, at least, is clear enough that only the final ] is omitted when
the [ ] is used.
- --
Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer...
http://micah.cowan.name/
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- Possible bug in Makefile 3.81, address@hidden, 2007/11/06
- Re: Possible bug in Makefile 3.81, address@hidden, 2007/11/06
- Re: Possible bug in Makefile 3.81, Bob Proulx, 2007/11/06
- Re: Possible bug in Makefile 3.81, Karl Berry, 2007/11/06
- Re: Possible bug in Makefile 3.81, Micah Cowan, 2007/11/06
- Re: Possible bug in Makefile 3.81, Karl Berry, 2007/11/06
- Re: Possible bug in Makefile 3.81,
Micah Cowan <=
- Re: Possible bug in Makefile 3.81, Eric Blake, 2007/11/06
- Re: Possible bug in Makefile 3.81, Karl Berry, 2007/11/20
- Re: Possible bug in Makefile 3.81, Olly Betts, 2007/11/26
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