[PATCH] Use '[]' over 'test' throughout.
Julien Cristau
jcristau at debian.org
Tue Sep 14 07:08:25 PDT 2010
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:50:44 -0400, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 07:29 -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote:
>
> > Consistently use one conditional notation, ('[]') over
> > the other ('test').
> >
>
> I am not an expert on shells, but I think the [] construct is less
> portable that the "test" construct.
> If you grep the "configure" scripts generated by Autoconf, it
> exclusively uses "test". I have not read every line
> carefully however. If you grep the configure.ac files, same story.
>
[] in configure is a PITA because [] are special in m4. That doesn't
apply to this script.
Cheers,
Julien
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