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Re: Shell portability issue in tests/key-id/key-id
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: Shell portability issue in tests/key-id/key-id |
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Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:03:59 +0200 |
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Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <address@hidden> writes:
> 2009-09-03 22:46:23 Tom G. Christensen napisał(a):
>> The tests/key-id/key-id script uses 'if !' which is not understood by
>> /bin/sh and results in an error on IRIX and Solaris.
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>> $ ./key-id
>> !: Not found
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> ! is documented by POSIX:
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_09_02_01
Alas it is not portable, see:
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Limitations-of-Builtins.html
I have rewritten the code, thanks for the report Tom.
/Simon