On 09/06/2010 07:51 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Hello Ralf,
* Ralf Corsepius wrote on Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 07:49:04PM CEST:
On 09/06/2010 05:18 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
This is mostly a cosmetic/consistency patch. I hope you'll find it
worth applying nonetheless.
Internationalization tests: prefer `test ! -r' over `test ! -f'
test -r is non-portable.
Very old shells do not support it.
Do you have an example system?
SunOS4.
I still have access to its man-pages, which don't mention "test -e".
The Autoconf manual doesn't bother to
document this, which makes me think that only museum systems would be
affected.
Quite likely.
We've been using it for a long time inside both Autoconf and
Automake.
I vaguely recall somebody having wanted to use "test -e" in autoconf in
the 2.13->2.49-era and him having triggered issues related to it.
May be times have changed enough to furtheron ignore the number of such
remaining fossil systems?
Ralf
