Re: [Libvir] make syntax-check fails with bzr checkouts

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 4/30/2008 4:19 AM: |> - $(find ${*-*} -name Entries -print) /dev/null; |> + $(find ${*:-*} -name Entries -print) /dev/null; | | Thanks for reporting that. | Note though that POSIX appears to require the behavior that bash exhibits, | so calling this a bashism doesn't seem right. However, in the spec, | just beneath the part that talks about ${parameter-word} there are escape | clauses for e.g., ${#parameter} and ${parameter%word} etc.: | | If parameter is '*' or '@', the result of the expansion is unspecified. | | but there is no such exemption for the ${parameter-word} syntax. I think POSIX is ambiguous here. For the ${a:-b} (and ${a-b}) form, it only states that if the parameter is null/unset, use the substitute; but it can be argued that * and @ are _always_ set. Maybe it's worth asking the Austin group. But Jim's workaround looked better anyway. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9(a)byu.net