Re: [PATCH 1/2] mkbuiltins: Use a `while` loop rather than `nl`

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Harald van Dijk <harald@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 04/08/2016 07:54, Kylie McClain wrote:
>> From: Kylie McClain <somasis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> nl, while specified in POSIX, is rather obscure and isn't provided by small
>> coreutils implementations such as `busybox`. This while loop works just as
>> well for our purposes.
> ...
>> -sed 's/      -[a-z]*//' $temp2 | nl -ba -v0 |
>> +sed 's/      -[a-z]*//' $temp2 | while read line;do \
>> +     i=$(( ${i:--1} + 1 )); printf '%s %s\n' "${i}" "${line}";done |
> 
> $(( ... )) is mentioned in 
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Shell-Substitutions.html> 
> as not universally supported, notably Solaris 10 /bin/sh does not have 
> it. Given that dash was fairly recently changed to make it build on 
> Solaris 9, it seems like a mistake to break that again.
> 
> Aside from that, i is such a common variable name that it seems risky to 
> assume it is unset. I know I've set it myself in shell sessions that I 
> ended up using for building dash. I never exported it, so it wouldn't 
> break here, but it doesn't seem like a stretch that someone else does 
> export it.

nl has been around forever.  I'm not taking this patch.

Cheers,
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