From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#57949: git head; unportable test(1) operator Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:00:02 +0300 Message-ID: <83tu52w919.fsf@gnu.org> References: <2b1180d2e52a1983cda7@heytings.org> <83v8piw9fo.fsf@gnu.org> <2b1180d2e5dbd135d8bc@heytings.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40865"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 57949@debbugs.gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 20 17:22:52 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oaf5H-000APk-RN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2022 17:22:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45586 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oaf5G-0007LV-DU for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:22:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45878) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oabvy-0003TB-IQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2022 08:01:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:57314) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oabvy-0005aj-AJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2022 08:01:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oabvy-0005eA-4s for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2022 08:01:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 12:01:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 57949 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 57949-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B57949.166367522818331 (code B ref 57949); Tue, 20 Sep 2022 12:01:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 57949) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Sep 2022 12:00:28 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56392 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oabvP-0004ko-Gf for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2022 08:00:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35628) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oabvO-0004RU-00 for 57949@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2022 08:00:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:40284) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oabvI-0005Py-OB; Tue, 20 Sep 2022 08:00:20 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=RCXUp9pyarffamkKFT+4yfnbcL8Oj6BJhY3HY3mpAAI=; b=ddwPpj781KtT RL+SpXUV71tEby8CddfFCT/TETBX5BcPdKSBX94csmXUVa2jQIIAdgSbqNmwYfT2mOaS2Kry+4i8a 2H9kLt6CP/ROxZa2vAukPoAGmw+qOZqc5BDyI2zyuWEGZseMr7FWI9XmeeFweq1syc+XDC471oSPw tW/U/leK09CwqiNPxf/exTSNj7sQ6QIjV6oRGAudxGv6CdfULY7Sp6gru96ZF2+w+CY/w33j1k2IT VzWFkPkJgfkyUd69YBgHOSg9STKo0i/LfoOz0Gjn447gklY+DnlgsjD5ST6lczw0ZAAy7IUPYmFgt pHxyl3l3undbt8eag7mWMw==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=4338 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oabuu-0000NL-DL; Tue, 20 Sep 2022 08:00:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <2b1180d2e5dbd135d8bc@heytings.org> (message from Gregory Heytings on Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:54:55 +0000) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:243177 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:54:55 +0000 > From: Gregory Heytings > cc: 57949@debbugs.gnu.org > > > >>> Makefile.in started using "==" as test(1) comparison operator. > >>> > >>> This is not portable, only bash supports it. POSIX mandates "=". > >> > >> Thanks, fixed! > > > > Gregory, why are there ZERO-WIDTH SPACE characters in the top-level > > Makefile.in? What purpose do they server, and why cannot we do the same > > with ASCII characters? > > > > Their purpose is to make the text behave exactly like the "CC", "ELC", > "GEN", "INFO", ... messages printed by make. I don't think I understand -- what do you expect to happen, as opposed to when these are removed? > If it's problematic to have zero-width space characters there, they > could be removed and/or replaced by something else. Depending on how you view them, they could appear as "", in inverse video, on a terminal's display. Which stands out and gets in the way of reading.