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Re: [patch] Keep sanity in autotools
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Bruce Korb |
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Re: [patch] Keep sanity in autotools |
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Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:03:35 -0800 |
Eric Sunshine wrote:
>
> Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> > Just a try - this is also forbidden?: if ls -ld $f | grep -q '^...x'; then
>
> The grep -q option is unportable. Autoconf works around this issue by....
>
> The '^' and '.' tokens in the grep expression also are not.... Instead,
> usage would have to be conditionalized based upon the result of
> AC_PROG_EGREP.
>
> Finally, use of "ls -ld" may or may not be acceptable.....
This is plain nutty. Not that you don't have to work around portability
problems, but _surely_ "the community" can agree that there has to be
some sort of limit to the convolutions that one embeds into every project.
It seemed clear to me 6 years ago that that point had been reached.
What is terribly wrong with requiring a minimalist install environment
pre-installed? You know, autoconf checks for it and if it has not been
installed and echo and grep don't work, then just choke and die. How many
programmer hours are squandered hassling over silly things that were
fixed 20 years ago? At what point are hobbiest platforms dropped so
that programmers can presume target platforms that are less than a decade
old? Sheesh! What a waste of time.
- Re: [patch] Keep executability of config.status-ed files, (continued)
- Re: [patch] Keep executability of config.status-ed files, Bob Friesenhahn, 2003/12/10
- Re: [patch] Keep executability of config.status-ed files, Akim Demaille, 2003/12/10
- Re: [patch] Keep executability of config.status-ed files, Bob Friesenhahn, 2003/12/10
- Re: [patch] Keep executability of config.status-ed files, Jan Kratochvil, 2003/12/10
- Re: [patch] Keep executability of config.status-ed files, Bob Friesenhahn, 2003/12/10
- Re: [patch] Keep executability of config.status-ed files, Eric Sunshine, 2003/12/10
- Re: [patch] Keep executability of config.status-ed files, Paul Jarc, 2003/12/10
- Re: [patch] Keep executability of config.status-ed files, Eric Sunshine, 2003/12/10
- Re: [patch] Keep executability of config.status-ed files, Paul Jarc, 2003/12/10
- Re: [patch] Keep executability of config.status-ed files, Eric Sunshine, 2003/12/10
- Re: [patch] Keep sanity in autotools,
Bruce Korb <=
- Re: [patch] Keep sanity in autotools, Eric Sunshine, 2003/12/10
- Re: [patch] Keep executability of config.status-ed files, Eric Siegerman, 2003/12/10
- Re: [patch] Keep executability of config.status-ed files, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2003/12/10
- Re: [patch] Keep executability of config.status-ed files, Eric Sunshine, 2003/12/10
- Re: [patch] Keep executability of config.status-ed files, Eric Siegerman, 2003/12/10
Re: [patch] Keep executability of config.status-ed files v3, Jan Kratochvil, 2003/12/10