Re: ksh bug on Tru64 UNIX causes current libtool failure

[Albert Chin]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 08:33:01AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Albert Chin wrote on Tue, May 17, 2005 at 11:04:33PM CEST:
> > On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 06:35:33AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > * Albert Chin wrote on Sun, May 15, 2005 at 04:27:05AM CEST:
> > > 
> > > > case "foobar" in
> > > > *\)*)
> > > >   echo bar ;;
> > > > esac
> > > > 
> > > >   $ ./quote
> > > > + echo bar
> > > > bar
> > > > 
> > > > I don't see an obvious workaround except for removing *\)* from the
> > > > case statement.
> > > 
> > > Well, how about using either *")"* or *')'* as pattern?  Does that work?
> > 
> > Neither work.
> 
> Does the following work?
> 
> pat=')'
> case foobar in
>   *$pat*) echo bad;;
> esac
> case foo\\bar in
>   *$pat*) echo bad;;
> esac
> case foo\)bar in
>   *$pat*) ;;
>   *) echo bad;;
> esac

I get the following output:
  + pat=)
  + echo bad
  bad
  + echo bad
  bad

The last 'echo bad' does not get executed.

> If not, let me see: This failure only causes quote.test to fail, and
> causes a lot of extra quotes in the libtool output, but no real failure.
> Is that correct?

libtool no longer works on this platform.

> Could you mail the output of attached script?  Please replace echo by an
> echo program which does not interpret backslashes, and the shell path
> with the correct one.

Below. I used echo='print -r' as 'prnit -r' does not interpret
backslashes.

-- 
albert chin (address@hidden)

-- snip snip
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