On 26 Apr 2002 19:10:00 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > On 11:21 19 Apr 2002, tim phipps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Description: > | configure bombs out becasue /bin/sh on Solaris 2.5 doesn't > | do [ -e "$PERL" ] > | > | -f works for me but it's probably not the right thing because > | that just tests for a regular file. > > -x (executable regular file) and -d (directory) are also fairly specific > and portable, depending what you're testing.
There is no portable way to test for symlinks that I know of, except for replacing ancient /bin/sh like the ones in ULTRIX, AIX, SunOS. Anyway, this is not needed, since we test perl by running. Regards, Mikhael. -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
