Re: emacs-29 b54febef5d7: Fix NetBSD build with and without ncurses

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Valtteri Vuorikoski <vuori@notcom.org>
> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2023 18:02:44 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > -    if test "x$LIBS_TERMCAP" != "x-lterminfo"; then
> > +    # NetBSD versions prior to 6.0 lack native terminfo, but have a
> > +    # tputs() built on top of termcap in these libraries. Use native
> > +    # termcap instead in this case. NetBSD >= 6.0 has native terminfo
> > +    # implementation in -lterminfo.
> > +    if test "x$LIBS_TERMCAP" = "x-ltermcap" -o "x$LIBS_TERMCAP" = 
> > "x-lcurses"; then
> 
> >From (autoconf)Portable Shell:
> 
>      The `-a', `-o', `(', and `)' operands are not present in all
>      implementations, and have been marked obsolete by Posix 2008.  This
>      is because there are inherent ambiguities in using them.  For
>      example, `test "$1" -a "$2"' looks like a binary operator to check
>      whether two strings are both non-empty, but if `$1' is the literal
>      `!', then some implementations of `test'' treat it as a negation of
>      the unary operator `-a'.

We use -o in other places with 'test'.  So this is evidently not a
problem.

> Will anyone object if I change this to:
> 
>   AS_IF([test "x$LIBS_TERMCAP" != "x-lterminfo" \
>          || test "x$LIBS_TERMCAP" = "x-lcurses"],
>         [...])
> 
> on the release branch?

Please don't.