* Jim Meyering wrote on Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 09:44:59PM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > alias names are typically more relaxed, POSIX does not guarantee hyphens > > but dash, /bin/sh -> bash support them, Solaris sh doesn't but its ksh > > does.
> That sounds like a good idea, but does it work? > > $ bash -c 'alias a-b=echo; a-b' > bash: a-b: command not found You need to enable alias expansion, gnulib-tool uses it, as example. > > Since I'd prefer standards-conforming code (FWIW): I volunteer to write > > a patch to add $EXEEXT to all test invocations in gnulib testsuite > > scripts and makefile sniplets now, and to try to revisit once every 6 > > months, to please wine setups. If the gnulib authors can agree to that > > strategy, that is, of course. > > Thanks for the offer, Ralf, but I feel pretty strongly > that adding $EXEEXT as a suffix to every invocation would > constitute "too much" pollution, and for what? To enable > mingw-like systems to run tests using a portable shell. IIUC then it's not for MinGW. It's only for cross setups where you have an emulator but the host system doesn't emulate $EXEEXT-interpolation for you. Right? (On MinGW, .exe is appended implicitly in all interesting situations.) > Gnulib itself is about enabling applications to code the right way, > targeting the best, most up-to-date interfaces. It would feel wrong > to compromise the aesthetics of a big chunk of the test suite in order > to accommodate less functional systems. > > I'd much prefer to do a little more work to keep the tests readable, > while still enabling init.sh-using tests in most of those (fringe, IMHO) > environments, as long as they have a suitably modern shell. > > Sticking to POSIX is fine as long as it doesn't impact code > quality (mostly readability and maintainability). However, > I've found that POSIX sh is too limiting in several respects > (lack of "local" support is a big one), so have decided to > require more, whenever feasible. That's of course completely fine with me, the above offer was intended as little more than another way out. Cheers, Ralf
