Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 17:30:45 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: marxx@doomsday.org, spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make world Message-ID: <199607220730.RAA09746@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>(the problem, incidentally, is that it had stuff like (this is out of
>memory):
>
> @if test -d ${SOMEVARIABLE}; then \
> rm -rf ${SOMEVARIABLE}
>
>which seems fine, but if you look at the behavoir or test, it seems
>rather unexpected...
>
> bash$ if test -d; then echo hi; fi
> hi
>
>i would have thought that the directory <blank> would return false, but
>it returns true... =(. so this is what happens in the makefile:
FreeBSD still has the bug that the empty pathname means the current
directory. Thus `test -d ""' exits with status 0. `test -d' with no
args is completely different. For some reason it isn't a syntax error,
and it exits with status 0 here although I have fixed the empty
pathname bug.
Bruce
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