Re: FW: Problem with default config.cache

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Monday 30 July 2001 7:04 am, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> > > > .....
> > > > updating cache config.cache
> > > > loading cache config.cache within ltconfig
> > > > /tools/src/lftp-pre2.4.0-3/ltconfig: config.cache: not found
> > > > configure: error: libtool configure failed
> > > >
> > > > The reason is here (ltconfig):
> > > >
> > > > if test -n "$cache_file" && test -r "$cache_file" && test -f
> > > > "$cache_file"; then
> > > >   echo "loading cache $cache_file within ltconfig"
> > > >   . $cache_file
> > > > fi
> > > >
> > > > The problem is `.' command does search in PATH and of course does
> > > > not find cache file.
> >
> > Why is it obvious?  `,' is also supposed to search the current directory.
>
> SUS does not agree with you
> (<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/chap2.html#tag_001_014_
>0 04>):
>
> . file
>  DESCRIPTION
> The shell will execute commands from the file in the current environment.
> If file does not contain a slash, the shell will use the search path
> specified by to find the directory containing file. Unlike normal command
> search, however, the file searched for by the dot utility need not be
> executable. If no readable file is found, a non-interactive shell will
> abort; an interactive shell will write a diagnostic message to standard
> error, but this condition will not be considered a syntax error.

Wow.  You learn something everyday.  The current directory fallback behaviour 
must be a bashism.  I will patch branch-1-4 so that 1.4.1 doesn't have this 
problem.

Thanks for the report.

Cheers,
        Gary.

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