Re: [PATCH] repack: find -> /usr/bin/find, as for cygwin

From: ryenus ◇ <ryenus@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 20, 2011, 08:42 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTim+sijuHidJNWyqC75yTFVo0YX67J3AXnPJVsoc@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqlj0ajkqa.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Hey Matthieu,

Yes, I mean it.

The purpose of this test script is to testify that "*MINGW*|*CYGWIN*" will match MinGW and/or Cygwin, so that it won't fall down to the next 2 cases.

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 15:48, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:

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> ryenus ◇ <ryenus@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> oops, corrected the script with the test strings in upper cases
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> echo $(uname -s)
>> case $(uname -s) in
>> *MINGW*|*CYGWIN*)
>         ^
> This "|" means "or" in a case statement...
>
>>   echo "detected MinGW/Cygwin"
>>   ;;
>> *MINGW*)
>
> ...so I can see no way to reach this point: if the string matches
> *MINGW*, it also matches *MINGW*|*CYGWIN*.
>
>>   echo "detected MinGW"
>>   ;;
>> *CYGWIN*)
>>   echo "detected Cygwin"
>>   ;;
>> esac
>
> But you've just showed that $(uname -s) of Cygwin did contain upper-case
> CYGWIN, which I think was the point to verify :-).
>
> --
> Matthieu Moy
> http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
>