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Re: other texinfo 4.4 incompatibilities with POSIX 1003.1-2001


From: Karl Berry
Subject: Re: other texinfo 4.4 incompatibilities with POSIX 1003.1-2001
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 09:25:45 -0500

    "diff -u0" to fail since it combines "-u" and "-0"

<generic complaint about foolish posix backward incompatibilities>

Ok, I suppose it is harmless enough to use -U0 since this is just a test
script anyway and not installed.

    +  EGREP='grep -E'

Sorry, I'm not going to apply this one.  I am uninterested in pedantic
compliance, especially when it complicates the scripts, even in this
minor way.  No real system will ever ship without egrep, POSIX was
simply crazy not to require it and I'm not going to cater to it :).

-               if test ! -r "$SKELETON" -a -f "$SKELETON"; then
+               if test ! -r "$SKELETON" && test -f "$SKELETON"; then
etc.

Thanks, fix-info-dir and gen-dir-node were contributed scripts and I
never looked deeply at them.  I installed those changes.

k




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