Hello Ralf. It seems you are confusing "set -e" and "set -r"...
On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > 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". Well, "test -e" is still not supported by Solaris 10 /bin/sh. But "test -r", which we are talking about, should have been there from a really really long time -- it is even cited in the Kernighan/Pike "The UNIX programming environment"! > > 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 further on > ignore the number of such remaining fossil systems? Alas, we can't do this yet -- thanks, Solaris! Regards, Stefano
