Subject: Re: test: ==: unexpected operator
To: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/22/2006 15:56:46
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Juan RP wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:59:40 +0200
> Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 02:06:08AM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
>>>
>>> bash/Linux allows "==" as an alternative to "=" in their test(1)
>>> command. I wonder if we want to save some trouble and just make our
>>> test(1) silently accept that too, instead of fixing all the broken
>>> scripts out there.
>>>
>>> It'd be an extension to POSIX, so I don't see much of a problem.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> I don't really see the point.  Scripts that do that in pkgsrc will
>> have to be fixed no matter what because there are platforms we cannot
>> bastardize the same way we can with NetBSD.  Changing this will just
>> make them harder to detect, because a lot of pkgsrc developers use
>> NetBSD to do pkgsrc work.
>
> I agree. The person should fix its stupid bash scripts.

 	I like the 'accept it with a warning to stderr' idea, in
 	case anyone is counting...
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