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Re: [PATCH v4] Thunderbird: fix appp.sh format problems

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MSMarco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 3, 2012, 10:51 UTC
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2012/9/2 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
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> Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Il 01/09/2012 15:59, Johannes Sixt ha scritto:
>>
>>> Look how you write:
>>>
>>>    perl -e '... $ENV{'PATCHTMP'} ...'
>>>
>>> That is, perl actually sees this script:
>>>
>>>    ... $ENV{PATCHTMP} ...
>>>
>>> (no quotes around PATCHTMP). That my be perfectly valid perl, but is not
>>> what you intended.
>>
>> I don't understand what you mean when you say "is not what you
>> intended"...
>
> When you wrote this:
>
>     CCS=`perl -e 'local $/=undef; open FILE, $ENV{'PATCHTMP'};...
>
> which one of the following did you mean to feed Perl?
>
>  (1) open FILE, $ENV{'PATCHTMP'};
>  (2) open FILE, $ENV{PATCHTMP};
>
> The patch text makes it look as if you wanted to do (1), but what is
> fed to perl is (2), as Johannes points out.
>
> Saying:
>
>     CCS=`perl -e 'local $/=undef; open FILE, $ENV{PATCHTMP};...
>
> would have been more natural if you really meant to do (2), don't
> you think?  So what you wrote is at least misleading.
>
> But I think I agree with Johannes's rewrite of the loop, so this may
> be a moot point.
Ok, I'll try to rewrite it as Johannes has suggested.
Regards,
Marco
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