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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] config.mak.uname: Darwin: define HAVE_GETDELIM for modern OS X releases
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 16:01:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150602200134.GA13382@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cQLSF4=-4b1qOY4ChBj00=trvAO0qFEh0kOjLonJL4MBg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 03:57:44PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:

> > Oops, I missed the trailing '.' in the regex there, and it probably
> > needs double-quotes in case the inner expr fails to match anything.
> 
> Which is messy considering the double quotes already surrounding
> $(uname_R). Suggestions?

The shell should do the right thing with nested quotes inside backticks.
So just (untested):

  $(shell expr "`expr "$(uname_R)" : '\([0-9][0-9]*\.\)'`" '>=' 11),1)

> I suppose the combination of `...` with built-in 'test' and built-in
> 'echo' would be the most efficient choice. Do you want it re-rolled?

I can live with it either way. It's all pretty horrible and ugly; the
saving grace is that we hopefully never have to touch that line again.
;)

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-02 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-02 18:18 [PATCH 0/2] auto-detect getdelim() Eric Sunshine
2015-06-02 18:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] config.mak.uname: Darwin: define HAVE_GETDELIM for modern OS X releases Eric Sunshine
2015-06-02 18:44   ` Jeff King
2015-06-02 19:04     ` Jeff King
2015-06-02 19:57       ` Eric Sunshine
2015-06-02 20:01         ` Jeff King [this message]
2015-06-02 20:17           ` Eric Sunshine
2015-06-02 18:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] configure: add getdelim() check Eric Sunshine
2015-06-02 18:45   ` Jeff King

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