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Re: sh -e changes broke pkgsrc
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 03:27:03PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> As I suspected it was a case of broken shell code in "pkgsrc". It used
> this construct with "set -e":
>
> while read type pattern dir; do \
> ${TEST} "$$type" != "bootstrap" && continue; \
> ${_DEPENDS_INSTALL_CMD}; \
> done
>
> If "$$type" is "bootstrap" the whole ".. && ..." expression will evaluate
> to false and the shell should terminate evaluation.
According to POSIX only failing *simple commands* are supposed to
cause -e exits. So this is not true...
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David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost
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