Re: [PATCH] Use first form of the test command

[Ben Elliston]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 07:42:57PM -0400, Issam E. Maghni wrote:

> Following
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2020-08/msg00004.html

> > The first form is easier to implement and directly available in BusyBox.
> > https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/test.html

Is there a specific use case that is causing problems? The POSIX
standard says that 'test' and '[' are semantically equivalent and '['
should be present on any POSIX system. I can understand that a broken
system might be missing '[', but this hasn't been a problem for 25+
years.

Can you elaborate?

Thanks,
Ben