Re: Minor installation defects
>-Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
>
> On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 08:35:29AM +0000, Alexander V. Mirgorodsky wrote:
>
> > Investigation showed that the version of "test" supplied with RedHat was
> > unhappy with "==" syntax in comparisons. Changing "==" with "=" solved the
> > problem and installation ran flawlessly. I believe that the usage of "=" is
> > more correct and portable, so could you, please, consider incorporating the
> > change into dpkg-hurd.
>
> Ok, I can do that. But PLEASE report this to RH, too. It's bad if RH
> provides such a broken version of test. Don't they use the test from
> shellutils?
test from shellutils doesn't accept ==
test the bash builtin does
--
Making main a void function isn't really bad. The only drawback
is that the compiler is free to generate instructions that launch
nuclear missiles (if you have the necessary hardware), drown your
gold fish or turn your keyboard into a hungry polar bear.
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