Hello,
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 03:09:12PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> Stepan> I see no reason for the `export' here.
...
> Alas, many shells, such as Solaris 2.5, IRIX 6.3, IRIX 5.2, AIX
> 4.1.5, and Digital UNIX 4.0, forget to `export' the environment
> variables they r
>>> "Stepan" == Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stepan> Two tiny comments:
>> +Vincent LefevreVincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Oops, thanks!
Stepan> It seems this is the first time when you repeat the full name in the
email.
>> +if test "${TIME_STYLE+set}" = set; t
Hello,
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 10:29:11PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> I'm installing the following on HEAD and branch-1-9.
thank you.
> (I think any justification of why unset must not be used really
> belongs to the Autoconf manual.)
Yes, of course. I sent a question to the autoconf
+# This setting, when honored by GNU ls, used to cause an infinite loop
+# in mdate-sh.
+TIME_STYLE="+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
+export TIME_STYLE
+
echo AC_OUTPUT >> configure.in
cat > Makefile.am << 'END'
--
Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Hello,
replying to an older thread:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:50:07PM +0100, James Youngman wrote:
> if unset TIME_STYLE 2>/dev/null ...
> else
> TIME_STYLE=posix-"$TIME_STYLE"
I think this is too complicated.
The documentation says the default is posix-long-iso, and
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:41:21PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> >>> "James" == James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> James> +# GNU ls unserstands $TIME_STYLE. Leaving it set at "+%Y-%m-%d
> %H:%M:%S" for
> James> +# example will cause this script to go into an infinite loop.
On 2005-06-08 20:41:21 +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> unset is not portable.
> Can we override TIME_STYLE with some safe value? Which one?
> What happens when this is set to the empty string?
An empty string is incorrect:
ay:~> TIME_STYLE= ls -l
ls: ambiguous argument `' for `time style'
>>> "James" == James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
James> +# GNU ls unserstands $TIME_STYLE. Leaving it set at "+%Y-%m-%d
%H:%M:%S" for
James> +# example will cause this script to go into an infinite loop.
James> +unset TIME_STYLE
unset is not portable.
Can we override TIME_STYLE w
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:57:26PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> I now remember that I also have TIME_STYLE="+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S",
> which is used by ls (from the coreutils).
Some values of TIME_STYLE can cause an infinite loop in mdate-sh if
"ls" is from GNU coreutil
