* Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115069: * configure.ac: test portability fix [not found] <E1Vg4E3-0000MO-B5@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> @ 2013-11-12 4:12 ` Stefan Monnier 2013-11-12 4:34 ` Glenn Morris 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Stefan Monnier @ 2013-11-12 4:12 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: emacs-devel > (I can never remember whether this is still relevant or not) It is. The issue is not portability: > -test "$MSYSTEM" = "MINGW32" && . $srcdir/nt/mingw-cfg.site If $MSYSTEM has value "-r" or something like that then the command does something else than intended. Stefan ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115069: * configure.ac: test portability fix 2013-11-12 4:12 ` [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115069: * configure.ac: test portability fix Stefan Monnier @ 2013-11-12 4:34 ` Glenn Morris 2013-11-12 5:40 ` Paul Eggert 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Glenn Morris @ 2013-11-12 4:34 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: emacs-devel Stefan Monnier wrote: >> -test "$MSYSTEM" = "MINGW32" && . $srcdir/nt/mingw-cfg.site > > If $MSYSTEM has value "-r" or something like that then the command does > something else than intended. Works fine on my systems. I'm sure there are older ones where it doesn't, but are they still relevant? I can't be bothered to read the enormous table properly... :) http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/test/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115069: * configure.ac: test portability fix 2013-11-12 4:34 ` Glenn Morris @ 2013-11-12 5:40 ` Paul Eggert 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Paul Eggert @ 2013-11-12 5:40 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: emacs-devel Glenn Morris wrote: > Works fine on my systems. I'm sure there are older ones where it > doesn't, but are they still relevant? Solaris 10 is still relevant (Oracle says they'll support it until January 2021, and it's still widely used), and its /bin/sh 'test' command isn't reliable with '=': $ test '(' = ')' test: argument expected ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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