Bug#366907: tetex-bin: Fails to configure, updmap failed

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

> Hm, that's strange.  The line is:
>
>     if [ $PERMS = $FONTCACHE_PERMS ] ; then
>
> maybe quotes around the variables would be better, but I don't understand
> what's happening.

I believe I do. And yes, the solution is to add double quotes (if I am
right).

I believe $PERMS expands to nothing, presumably because of the:

  PERMS=$(stat --format="%a" /var/cache/fonts 2>/dev/null) || true

which went through the "|| true" case. Therefore, the shell sees:

  if [ = stuff ]; then

And you can try this at home, with sh -> bash:

% if [ = azeeaz ]; then echo a; else echo b; fi
sh: [: =: unary operator expected
b
%

Same error message.

HTH,

-- 
Florent