Re: [PATCH] Internationalization tests: prefer `test ! -r' over `test ! -f'

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Ralf,

* Ralf Corsepius wrote on Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 07:49:04PM CEST:
> On 09/06/2010 05:18 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> >This is mostly a cosmetic/consistency patch.  I hope you'll find it
> >worth applying nonetheless.

> >Internationalization tests: prefer `test ! -r' over `test ! -f'
> 
> test -r is non-portable.
> 
> Very old shells do not support it.

Do you have an example system?  The Autoconf manual doesn't bother to
document this, which makes me think that only museum systems would be
affected.  We've been using it for a long time inside both Autoconf and
Automake.

(I haven't looked at the actual patches yet.)

Thanks,
Ralf