[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] clean up tests in configure

Alexander Strasser eclipse7 at gmx.net
Fri Jul 1 21:32:52 CEST 2005


Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 11:50:18AM -0500, Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:
> > 
> > I certainly agree that zsh is better, altough I am biased judge,
> > however this is a user error.  which is builtin in zsh (really coming
> > from csh), bash does not have it.  If you used type instead, you would
> > have discovered that `test' is indeed a shell builtin, and it is a
> > builtin in all the shells I know of, [ and test are just two names for
> > the same shell builtin.
> 
> Actually [ is a hard link to test usually.

  This has no sense without association of a shell. And for all
unix shells i used recently, [ and test were builtins just as
Zoltan said.

  Alex (beastd)




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