On 2007-11-21, Karl Berry <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Since there is no reason to prefer [, it is good to keep using test,
> because of the quoting, and for consistency with all the existing code
> that does so.
Using `[' is better in a particular case in makefiles - there the
Solaris VPATH rewriting feature can mangle commands containing `test'
in rules where `test' is one of the dependencies it rewrites.
I've actually been bitten by this issue, and it took a while to twig
what was going on as I'd not encountered this feature before.
Cheers,
Olly
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