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building on OpenBSD fails because of a shell pattern problem

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Message #28 received at 15769-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Han Boetes <han <at> boetes.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 15769-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15769: building on OpenBSD fails because of a shell pattern
 problem
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:51:44 +0100

Glenn Morris wrote:
> Well, you live and learn. Bash and zsh allow either [^...] or [!...],
> but ksh only the latter. I guess every other instance of [^...] in the
> Emacs build rules must be in sed rather than the shell.
> 
> So I changed ^ for !, but the whole check is likely to get removed soon
> anyway.

Incase you run debian I can recommend installing mksh and use it for
testing.

mksh is a clone of this ksh version. They both try to be as POSIX
compliant as possible. It's great for finding bashisms.



# Han

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