Re: [PATCH 2 of 9] build/internals.sh: Replace nonportable call to stat

[Titus von Boxberg <titus at v9g dot de>]

Am 19.05.2010 um 00:48 schrieb Yann E. MORIN:
> Arnaud, Titus, All,
> 
> On Tuesday 18 May 2010 22:40:05 Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Titus von Boxberg <titus@v9g.de> wrote:
>>> -            if [ "$( LANG=C stat -c '%F' "${_t}" )" != "symbolic link" ]; then
>>> +            if [ -z "`readlink ${_t}`" ]; then
> 
>> hum, test(1) tells me:
>>       -h FILE
>>              FILE exists and is a symbolic link (same as -L)
>> I think this is what is intended to be done, no ?
> 
> Yes, and it is in POSIX.1-2008. Plain and simple.
> Titus, can you check if test(1) on BSD/MacOS is conformant ?
Yann, Arnaud, All,

yes, test is way more nifty!

However, man test says to -h:
True if file exists and is a symbolic link.  This operator is retained for compatibility with previous versions of
this program. Do not rely on its existence; use -L instead.

I'd opt for -L

Regards
Titus



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