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[Scott James Remnant]

On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 14:06 -0500, Rocco Stanzione wrote:

> I kept quiet, though, figuring too many wheels had already started turning in 
> that direction, until today when I tried to build iptables.  When I 
> ran "make", the first line of output was:
> 
> [: 1: /usr/src/linux/include/asm: unexpected operator
> 
> caused by the line:
> 
> ifeq ($(shell [ -a $(KERNEL_DIR)/include/asm ] && echo YES), YES)
> 
Err, this isn't valid POSIX shell...

> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/test.html
> 
As cited by the URL you gave.


"test -a" is a very definite bashism for "if file exists".  The correct
POSIX for that is -e.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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