Hi Lou.
Please keep the mailing list in loop when you answer. Thanks.
I'm re-sending your answer to the list, so that it gets seen by the other
subscribers and registered in the bug tracker.
On 02/28/2012 03:05 PM, Lou Picciano wrote:
Stefano,
Tks for your notes -
I'm encouraged to think that, with a bit of work, I may just wind up with a
perfect version of automake!
On specific points:
Ah, likely the famous ksh bug with "$@" and empty arguments:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2009-12/msg00037.html>
Can you verify that your shell suffers of the problem described there? If
yes, a patch to fix this issue should be trivial.
Looks like we reproduce that bug example exactly - what patch would you
propose?:
Just a simple workaround for the affected shell function(s); see the attached
patch. Could you confirm it fixes your problem?
address@hidden:~$ foo.sh
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$#: 0
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$#: 1
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$#: 2
xy
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$#: 2
xy xay
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$#: 3
xay xy xby
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address@hidden:~$ sh foo.sh
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$#: 0
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$#: 1
---
$#: 2
xy
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$#: 2
xy xay
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$#: 3
xay xy xby
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address@hidden:~$ ksh foo.sh
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$#: 0
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$#: 1
---
$#: 2
xy
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$#: 2
xy xay
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$#: 3
xay xy xby
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On the 'find' question:
find: bad option -links
find: [-E] [-H | -L] path-list predicate-list
Oops, your find (1) doesn't support the '-links' option, which is mandated
by
POSIX:<http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604599/utilities/find.html>.
Yes, exactly right - build system defaults to 'solaris' find. working on this
one next...:
So you are planning to fix your system's version of find? That would be great,
since it would allow us to avoid putting another ugly workaround in automake's
rules.
address@hidden:~$ find -links
find: illegal option -- l
find: [-E] [-H | -L] path-list predicate-list
address@hidden:~$ /usr/gnu/bin/find -links
/usr/gnu/bin/find: missing argument to `-links'
Regards, Lou Picciano
Thanks,
Stefano
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