-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/1/14, 5:51 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tue 08 Jul 2014 06:51:46 Greg Minshall wrote: >> hi. the following fragment from a ./configure >> ---- >> # Prefer a ksh shell builtin over an external printf program on Solaris, >> # but without wasting forks for bash or zsh. >> if test -z "$BASH_VERSION$ZSH_VERSION" \ >> && (test "X`print -r -- $as_echo`" = "X$as_echo") 2>/dev/null; then >> as_echo='print -r --' >> as_echo_n='print -rn --' >> elif >> ---- >> plays poorly with a user-defined bash function named "print" (basically, >> a front end to pr(1)). > > how would a user-defined bash function be a problem ? unless you're sourcing > the configure script, a new shell instance is launched to process configure. > in non-interactive mode, bash doesn't load any files (except via BASH_ENV, > but > that's a really bad idea to use).
If you're really worried about a stray exported function conflicting with this name, add `unset -f print 2>/dev/null' and go on. - -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlPbmV4ACgkQu1hp8GTqdKuaTwCbBVcf5KXT8Fstbt7lLE5JWJiw RScAnjloPY5NMN7FhGupbD4Xu+HyQQ2n =tiuy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----