From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: meissner@cygnus.com
Cc: ian@cygnus.com, phdm@mail.macqel.be, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: dejagnu runtest and runtest.exp
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 20:16:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11300.876971294@hurl.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199710140142.VAA27543@tweedledumb.cygnus.com>
In message < 199710140142.VAA27543@tweedledumb.cygnus.com >you write:
> | > Philippe De Muyter just posted a patch
> | > (< 199710131730.TAA11370@mail.macqel.be >) which should fix that, but I
> | > think his patch should be changed to search PATH rather than to rely
> | > on the builtin ``type'' command.
> |
> | OK, here it is. With an example it is much easier :)
> | Note that I use test -x, not -f as in example Ian provided. This should
> | perhaps be fixed in configure.
>
> If this code is going to run on really old shells, then please change
> the test back to -f, as I recall, the older shells on systems such as
> BSD 4.2 and Ultrix did not support the full range of test features.
Note, we already use -x elsewhere in runtest -- I suspect there's not
much hope for lots of code if a particular shell doesn't support -x.
jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-10-15 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-13 18:42 meissner
1997-10-15 20:16 ` Jeffrey A Law [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-10-10 8:51 Philippe De Muyter
1997-10-10 9:08 ` Ian Lance Taylor
1997-10-11 10:12 ` Manfred Hollstein
1997-10-13 11:05 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-10-13 13:41 ` Ian Lance Taylor
1997-10-13 15:02 ` Philippe De Muyter
1997-10-15 20:14 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-10-15 20:16 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-10-18 0:28 ` Manfred Hollstein
1997-10-18 5:56 ` Philippe De Muyter
1997-10-18 11:38 ` Manfred Hollstein
1997-10-19 18:00 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-10-19 19:40 ` Philippe De Muyter
1997-10-13 15:02 ` Philippe De Muyter
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