Thanks all for your replies, I posted a comment to `octave-hg` AUR page to ask to remove it.
I also noticed that the problem is already known in aura [1] and a pull request is waiting [2]. I must have checked here before. [1] https://github.com/fosskers/aura/issues/152 [2] https://github.com/fosskers/aura/pull/164 Kind regards, Fabien 2013/11/3 Ido Rosen <i...@kernel.org> > This is a bug in aura's array parsing logic, which is in Bash/Parser.hs > line : > > array :: Parser [BashString] > array = concat . catMaybes <$> array' <?> "valid array" > where array' = char '(' *> spaces *> manyTill single' (char ')') > single' = (Nothing <$ comment <* spaces) <|> (Just <$> single) > > ...and is missing backslash ('\\') support and is overly simplistic. > See for comparison the command parser in the same file (which has > backslash support): > > command :: Parser Field > command = spaces *> (Command <$> many1 commandChar <*> option [] (try > args)) > where commandChar = alphaNum <|> oneOf "./" > args = char ' ' >> unwords <$> line >>= \ls -> > case parse (many1 single) "(command)" ls of > Left _ -> fail "Failed parsing strings in a command" > Right bs -> return $ concat bs > line = (:) <$> many (noneOf "\n\\") <*> next > next = ([] <$ char '\n') <|> (char '\\' *> spaces *> line) > > > > On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Frederik "Freso" S. Olesen < > freso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Den 03-11-2013 13:29, Fabien Dubosson skrev: > > > >> [...] So before filling a > >> > >> bug request to `aura`, I wanted to be sure that it is allowed/common to > >> use > >> `\` to split lines in the `depends` array? > >> > > > > For some more in-depth information than Rafael's commanding comment: > > 1) the \ character followed by a newline is used for breaking up long > > lines in (ba)sh code. The $depends array is thus perfectly valid bash, > and > > I would file a bug report against aura to either make it not error - or > at > > least change it to a warning, since: > > 2) there's no need to escape the newline in the $depends array, as > > newlines will just be treated like other whitespace until the array > > definition is ended by the ")" character, thus I would *also* do as > Rafael > > "suggested" and ask the octave-hg to remove the backslash. > > > > -- > > Frederik "Freso" S. Olesen <http://freso.dk/> > > >