Apparently we've only had it because the -[ao] options weren't portable at the time, but according to https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/test.html both are defined in POSIX.1-2017 revision which is old enough for all our supported platforms to have adopted it already, so we can drop the check. However, the above has also marked -[ao] as obsolescent stating that: "[OB] Obsolescent The functionality described may be removed in a future version of this volume of POSIX.1-2017. Strictly Conforming POSIX Applications and Strictly Conforming XSI Applications shall not use obsolescent features." It is however unlikely that the shell implementations would drop support for -[ao] despite POSIX potentially removing them. Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> --- build-aux/syntax-check.mk | 9 --------- 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/build-aux/syntax-check.mk b/build-aux/syntax-check.mk index d7cf109fbd..5718768193 100644 --- a/build-aux/syntax-check.mk +++ b/build-aux/syntax-check.mk @@ -1201,15 +1201,6 @@ sc_prohibit_double_semicolon: halt="Double semicolon detected" \ $(_sc_search_regexp) -_ptm1 = use "test C1 && test C2", not "test C1 -''a C2" -_ptm2 = use "test C1 || test C2", not "test C1 -''o C2" -# Using test's -a and -o operators is not portable. -# We prefer test over [, since the latter is spelled [[ in configure.ac. -sc_prohibit_test_minus_ao: - @prohibit='(\<test| \[+) .+ -[ao] ' \ - halt='$(_ptm1); $(_ptm2)' \ - $(_sc_search_regexp) - # Avoid a test bashism. sc_prohibit_test_double_equal: @prohibit='(\<test| \[+) .+ == ' \ -- 2.41.0
