-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Karl Berry on 11/6/2007 5:27 PM: [adding autoconf, since the autoconf manual likes documenting these things] > Are there still Unixen for which [ is not portable? > > Portability isn't the problem with [. It's parsing. > > [ -n "$x" ] > > fails if x=] ... or did at one time anyway. Sorry for lack of details, > it's been too many years. > I don't know if this is truly the case. My understanding is that [ and test have been synonyms for a long time, so that you should not have any worries about interchanging them today on any practical porting target. However, I do know that autoconf (and thus automake) prefers test over [, primarily because test is less likely to mess up quoting rules in autoconf macros. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@xxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHMREP84KuGfSFAYARAhp7AJ92i9b49e/r2EaCNmURnPrZKiTr2ACZAftS g/rw8HGpJCTR3BdkJQMD5lE= =bcs6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
