Bug#243885: Bug#240887: Package building problem.

2004-04-18 Thread Herbert Xu
Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Not quite.  In the context of case patterns and fnmatch, quote removal
>> is not performed.
> 
> You mean fnmatch() gets called with the FNM_NOESCAPE flag?

No.  I mean that on the input path to fnmatch(), the escape characters
have to be there.
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Bug#243885: Bug#240887: Package building problem.

2004-04-18 Thread Herbert Xu
Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Not quite.  In the context of case patterns and fnmatch, quote removal
>> is not performed.
> 
> You mean fnmatch() gets called with the FNM_NOESCAPE flag?

No.  I mean that on the input path to fnmatch(), the escape characters
have to be there.
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Bug#243885: Bug#240887: Package building problem.

2004-04-18 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:44:27PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> 
> If I understand Herbert Xu correctly, he's saying the regex
> should be written as:
> *[][~#$^&*(){}\|;<>?]*

No, the way it's written currently is fine.

It's glibc's fnmatch(3) implementation that's broken.

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Bug#243885: Bug#240887: Package building problem.

2004-04-18 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:44:27PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> 
> If I understand Herbert Xu correctly, he's saying the regex
> should be written as:
> *[][~#$^&*(){}\|;<>?]*

No, the way it's written currently is fine.

It's glibc's fnmatch(3) implementation that's broken.

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Bug#243885: Bug#240887: Package building problem.

2004-04-17 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:14:39PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> >> Accordingly, I believe that the pattern in your example means
> >> "backslash, followed by a, followed by closing square bracket", not what
> >> you think it means.
> >
> > You're quite right.  This is reaffirmed by the POSIX document for
> > basic regular expressions, which is what POSIX uses to define
> > shell patterns.
> >
> > Therefore tetex-bin and autoconf will need to be fixed instead to
> > not use backslashes in [] expressions.
> 
> I read through the entire bug log for 240887 and couldn't figure
> out what actual bug in Autoconf is being pointed out.  Can anyone
> help me out?  I can't fix a bug if no one tells me what the bug
> is.

configure calls itself in subdirs and tries to pass the
same arguments again.

In configure there is this code:
# Strip out --no-create and --no-recursion so they do not pile
# up.
# Also quote any args containing shell metacharacters.
ac_configure_args=
for ac_arg
do
  case "$ac_arg" in
  -no-create | --no-create | --no-creat | --no-crea | --no-cre \
  | --no-cr | --no-c) ;;
  -no-recursion | --no-recursion | --no-recursio | --no-recursi \
  | --no-recurs | --no-recur | --no-recu | --no-rec | --no-re |
--no-r) ;;
  *" "*|*"  "*|*[\[\]\~\#\$\^\&\*\(\)\{\}\\\|\;\<\>\?]*)
  ac_configure_args="$ac_configure_args '$ac_arg'" ;;
  *) ac_configure_args="$ac_configure_args $ac_arg" ;;
  esac
done

Using dash it's not properly requoting
'--mandir=${prefix}/share/man', it gets turned into
--mandir=${prefix} at the first level and --mandir=/usr/share/man
at the next level.

Using bash it stays '--mandir=${prefix}/share/man'.

I'm not really sure who's to blame for it not working.  I think
there is atleast a bug in glibc's fnmatch().  That regex might
also need fixing.  But I really don't know what needs to be done.

If I understand Herbert Xu correctly, he's saying the regex
should be written as:
*[][~#$^&*(){}\|;<>?]*


Kurt





Bug#243885: Bug#240887: Package building problem.

2004-04-17 Thread Ben Pfaff
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> Accordingly, I believe that the pattern in your example means
>> "backslash, followed by a, followed by closing square bracket", not what
>> you think it means.
>
> You're quite right.  This is reaffirmed by the POSIX document for
> basic regular expressions, which is what POSIX uses to define
> shell patterns.
>
> Therefore tetex-bin and autoconf will need to be fixed instead to
> not use backslashes in [] expressions.

I read through the entire bug log for 240887 and couldn't figure
out what actual bug in Autoconf is being pointed out.  Can anyone
help me out?  I can't fix a bug if no one tells me what the bug
is.
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Bug#243885: Bug#240887: Package building problem.

2004-04-17 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:14:39PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> >> Accordingly, I believe that the pattern in your example means
> >> "backslash, followed by a, followed by closing square bracket", not what
> >> you think it means.
> >
> > You're quite right.  This is reaffirmed by the POSIX document for
> > basic regular expressions, which is what POSIX uses to define
> > shell patterns.
> >
> > Therefore tetex-bin and autoconf will need to be fixed instead to
> > not use backslashes in [] expressions.
> 
> I read through the entire bug log for 240887 and couldn't figure
> out what actual bug in Autoconf is being pointed out.  Can anyone
> help me out?  I can't fix a bug if no one tells me what the bug
> is.

configure calls itself in subdirs and tries to pass the
same arguments again.

In configure there is this code:
# Strip out --no-create and --no-recursion so they do not pile
# up.
# Also quote any args containing shell metacharacters.
ac_configure_args=
for ac_arg
do
  case "$ac_arg" in
  -no-create | --no-create | --no-creat | --no-crea | --no-cre \
  | --no-cr | --no-c) ;;
  -no-recursion | --no-recursion | --no-recursio | --no-recursi \
  | --no-recurs | --no-recur | --no-recu | --no-rec | --no-re |
--no-r) ;;
  *" "*|*"  "*|*[\[\]\~\#\$\^\&\*\(\)\{\}\\\|\;\<\>\?]*)
  ac_configure_args="$ac_configure_args '$ac_arg'" ;;
  *) ac_configure_args="$ac_configure_args $ac_arg" ;;
  esac
done

Using dash it's not properly requoting
'--mandir=${prefix}/share/man', it gets turned into
--mandir=${prefix} at the first level and --mandir=/usr/share/man
at the next level.

Using bash it stays '--mandir=${prefix}/share/man'.

I'm not really sure who's to blame for it not working.  I think
there is atleast a bug in glibc's fnmatch().  That regex might
also need fixing.  But I really don't know what needs to be done.

If I understand Herbert Xu correctly, he's saying the regex
should be written as:
*[][~#$^&*(){}\|;<>?]*


Kurt



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Bug#243885: Bug#240887: Package building problem.

2004-04-17 Thread Ben Pfaff
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> Accordingly, I believe that the pattern in your example means
>> "backslash, followed by a, followed by closing square bracket", not what
>> you think it means.
>
> You're quite right.  This is reaffirmed by the POSIX document for
> basic regular expressions, which is what POSIX uses to define
> shell patterns.
>
> Therefore tetex-bin and autoconf will need to be fixed instead to
> not use backslashes in [] expressions.

I read through the entire bug log for 240887 and couldn't figure
out what actual bug in Autoconf is being pointed out.  Can anyone
help me out?  I can't fix a bug if no one tells me what the bug
is.
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Bug#243885: Bug#240887: Package building problem.

2004-04-16 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 07:58:21AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 08:49:14PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> >
> > After reading all that you have to get confused about what "[\[\]\\]" means.
> > At the "highest level" it says that the '\' should be discarded,
> 
> Not quite.  In the context of case patterns and fnmatch, quote removal
> is not performed.

You mean fnmatch() gets called with the FNM_NOESCAPE flag?


Kurt





Bug#243885: Bug#240887: Package building problem.

2004-04-16 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 08:49:14PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
>
> After reading all that you have to get confused about what "[\[\]\\]" means.
> At the "highest level" it says that the '\' should be discarded,

Not quite.  In the context of case patterns and fnmatch, quote removal
is not performed.
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Bug#243885: Bug#240887: Package building problem.

2004-04-16 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 07:58:21AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 08:49:14PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> >
> > After reading all that you have to get confused about what "[\[\]\\]" means.
> > At the "highest level" it says that the '\' should be discarded,
> 
> Not quite.  In the context of case patterns and fnmatch, quote removal
> is not performed.

You mean fnmatch() gets called with the FNM_NOESCAPE flag?


Kurt



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Bug#243885: Bug#240887: Package building problem.

2004-04-16 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 08:49:14PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
>
> After reading all that you have to get confused about what "[\[\]\\]" means.
> At the "highest level" it says that the '\' should be discarded,

Not quite.  In the context of case patterns and fnmatch, quote removal
is not performed.
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Re: Bug#240887: Package building problem.

2004-04-16 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 12:54:03PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 08:09:05AM +1000, herbert wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 03:10:58PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> >
> > > Accordingly, I believe that the pattern in your example means
> > > "backslash, followed by a, followed by closing square bracket", not what
> > > you think it means.
> > 
> > You're quite right.  This is reaffirmed by the POSIX document for
> > basic regular expressions, which is what POSIX uses to define
> > shell patterns.

For fnmatch it says:

 The fnmatch() function shall match patterns as described in the
 Shell and Utilities volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 2.13.1,
 Patterns Matching a Single Character, and Section 2.13.2, Patterns
 Matching Multiple Characters.

Which says:

   The pattern matching notation described in this section is used to
   specify patterns for matching strings in the shell.  Historically,
   pattern matching notation is related to, but slightly different from,
   the regular expression notation described in the Base Definitions
   volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Chapter 9, Regular Expressions. For
   this reason, the description of the rules for this pattern matching
   notation are based on the description of regular expression notation,
   modified to include backslash escape processing.

[...]
   A backslash character shall escape the following character.
   The escaping backslash shall be discarded.

[...]
   The description of basic regular expression bracket expressions in the
   Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 9.3.5, RE
   Bracket Expression shall also apply to the pattern bracket expression

That says:

The
   right-bracket ( ']' ) shall lose its special meaning and represent
   itself in a bracket expression if it occurs first in the list
   (after an initial circumflex ( '^' ), if any).
[...]
   The special characters '.' , '*' , '[' , and '\' (period, asterisk,
   left-bracket, and backslash, respectively) shall lose their
   special meaning within a bracket expression.


After reading all that you have to get confused about what "[\[\]\\]" means.
At the "highest level" it says that the '\' should be discarded,
so you end up with "[[]\]" and look at that as a normal regular
expression?  Atleast that is how I interpret things.

But testing this shows that this program:
#include 
int main()
{
printf("%d\n", fnmatch("[\\]a]", "a", 0));
printf("%d\n", fnmatch("[\\]a]", "\\", 0));
printf("%d\n", fnmatch("[\\]a]", "]", 0));
printf("%d\n", fnmatch("[]a]", "a", 0));
printf("%d\n", fnmatch("[]a]", "]", 0));
return 0;
}
returns:
1
1
0
0
0

This does _not_ make sense to me in any way.  If the 3rd line says
there is a match, I would think it's interpreting it as "[]a]",
but then the first line should match too.

Ps: On other platforms I get:
0
1
0
0
0

One returned:
1
1
1
0
0


Which atleast make a little more sense.


Kurt




Re: Bug#240887: Package building problem.

2004-04-16 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 12:54:03PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 08:09:05AM +1000, herbert wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 03:10:58PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> >
> > > Accordingly, I believe that the pattern in your example means
> > > "backslash, followed by a, followed by closing square bracket", not what
> > > you think it means.
> > 
> > You're quite right.  This is reaffirmed by the POSIX document for
> > basic regular expressions, which is what POSIX uses to define
> > shell patterns.

For fnmatch it says:

 The fnmatch() function shall match patterns as described in the
 Shell and Utilities volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 2.13.1,
 Patterns Matching a Single Character, and Section 2.13.2, Patterns
 Matching Multiple Characters.

Which says:

   The pattern matching notation described in this section is used to
   specify patterns for matching strings in the shell.  Historically,
   pattern matching notation is related to, but slightly different from,
   the regular expression notation described in the Base Definitions
   volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Chapter 9, Regular Expressions. For
   this reason, the description of the rules for this pattern matching
   notation are based on the description of regular expression notation,
   modified to include backslash escape processing.

[...]
   A backslash character shall escape the following character.
   The escaping backslash shall be discarded.

[...]
   The description of basic regular expression bracket expressions in the
   Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 9.3.5, RE
   Bracket Expression shall also apply to the pattern bracket expression

That says:

The
   right-bracket ( ']' ) shall lose its special meaning and represent
   itself in a bracket expression if it occurs first in the list
   (after an initial circumflex ( '^' ), if any).
[...]
   The special characters '.' , '*' , '[' , and '\' (period, asterisk,
   left-bracket, and backslash, respectively) shall lose their
   special meaning within a bracket expression.


After reading all that you have to get confused about what "[\[\]\\]" means.
At the "highest level" it says that the '\' should be discarded,
so you end up with "[[]\]" and look at that as a normal regular
expression?  Atleast that is how I interpret things.

But testing this shows that this program:
#include 
int main()
{
printf("%d\n", fnmatch("[\\]a]", "a", 0));
printf("%d\n", fnmatch("[\\]a]", "\\", 0));
printf("%d\n", fnmatch("[\\]a]", "]", 0));
printf("%d\n", fnmatch("[]a]", "a", 0));
printf("%d\n", fnmatch("[]a]", "]", 0));
return 0;
}
returns:
1
1
0
0
0

This does _not_ make sense to me in any way.  If the 3rd line says
there is a match, I would think it's interpreting it as "[]a]",
but then the first line should match too.

Ps: On other platforms I get:
0
1
0
0
0

One returned:
1
1
1
0
0


Which atleast make a little more sense.


Kurt


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Bug#243885: fnmatch breaks on [\]]
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Bug#240887: backslashes are literal in shell bracket expressions
Bug reassigned from package `tetex-bin' to `dash'.

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Re: Bug#240887: Package building problem.

2004-04-15 Thread Herbert Xu
reopen 243885
reassign 240887 dash
retitle 240887 fnmatch(3) is broken
quit

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 08:09:05AM +1000, herbert wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 03:10:58PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> > Accordingly, I believe that the pattern in your example means
> > "backslash, followed by a, followed by closing square bracket", not what
> > you think it means.
> 
> You're quite right.  This is reaffirmed by the POSIX document for
> basic regular expressions, which is what POSIX uses to define
> shell patterns.

Sorry guys, but this turns out to be wrong.  POSIX has an additional
paragraph which I skipped earlier:

: When pattern matching is used where shell quote removal is not performed
: (such as in the argument to the find -name primary when find is being
: called using one of the exec functions as defined in the System
: Interfaces volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-200x, or in the pattern argument
: to the fnmatch( ) function), special characters can be escaped to remove
: their special meaning by preceding them with a backslash character. This
: escaping back slash is discarded. The sequence "\\" represents one literal
: backslash. All of the requirements and effects of quoting on ordinary,
: shell special, and special pattern characters shall apply to escaping
: in this context.

This clearly says that backslashes must be interpreted.
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Bug#243885: fnmatch breaks on [\]]
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Bug#240887: backslashes are literal in shell bracket expressions
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Re: Bug#240887: Package building problem.

2004-04-15 Thread Herbert Xu
reopen 243885
reassign 240887 dash
retitle 240887 fnmatch(3) is broken
quit

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 08:09:05AM +1000, herbert wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 03:10:58PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> > Accordingly, I believe that the pattern in your example means
> > "backslash, followed by a, followed by closing square bracket", not what
> > you think it means.
> 
> You're quite right.  This is reaffirmed by the POSIX document for
> basic regular expressions, which is what POSIX uses to define
> shell patterns.

Sorry guys, but this turns out to be wrong.  POSIX has an additional
paragraph which I skipped earlier:

: When pattern matching is used where shell quote removal is not performed
: (such as in the argument to the find -name primary when find is being
: called using one of the exec functions as defined in the System
: Interfaces volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-200x, or in the pattern argument
: to the fnmatch( ) function), special characters can be escaped to remove
: their special meaning by preceding them with a backslash character. This
: escaping back slash is discarded. The sequence "\\" represents one literal
: backslash. All of the requirements and effects of quoting on ordinary,
: shell special, and special pattern characters shall apply to escaping
: in this context.

This clearly says that backslashes must be interpreted.
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Re: Bug#240887: Package building problem.

2004-04-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:40:05PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 01:59:01PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
> > This is how dash calls it in _some_ subdirectories:
> > 
> > configuring in tetex
> > running /bin/sh ./configure  --prefix=/usr --enable-ipc --without-dialog\
> >   --without-texinfo --with-system-ncurses --with-x --with-system-zlib \
> >   --with-system-pnglib --with-system-tifflib --with-system-wwwlib \
> >   --with-system-t1lib --disable-multiplatform --enable-shared \
> >   --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=${prefix}/share/info \
> >   --cache-file=.././config.cache --srcdir=.
> > loading cache .././config.cache
> > 
> > That is, dash replaced the first occurence of ${prefix} by the variable
> > expansion. This shouldn't happen, because it is enclosed in single
> > quotes. 
> 
> This is caused by dash's use of fnmatch(3) which appears to break
> on patterns containing [\]...].
> 
> Here is a sample program to demonstrate it.
> 
> #include 
> #include 
> 
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
>   printf("%d\n", fnmatch("[\\]a]", "a", 0));
>   return 0;
> }

fnmatch(3) references glob(7), which says:

   Character classes
   An expression `[...]' where the first character after the lead-
   ing `[' is not an `!' matches a single character, namely any of
   the characters enclosed by the brackets.  The  string  enclosed
   by  the  brackets cannot be empty; therefore `]' can be allowed
   between the brackets, provided that it is the first  character.
   (Thus,  `[][!]' matches the three characters `[', `]' and `!'.)

   ...

   One  can remove the special meaning of `?', `*' and `[' by pre-
   ceding them by a backslash, or, in case this is part of a shell
   command line, enclosing them in quotes.  Between brackets these
   characters stand for themselves.  Thus,  `[[?*\]'  matches  the
   four characters `[', `?', `*' and `\'.

Accordingly, I believe that the pattern in your example means
"backslash, followed by a, followed by closing square bracket", not what
you think it means.

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Re: Bug#240887: Package building problem.

2004-04-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:40:05PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 01:59:01PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
> > This is how dash calls it in _some_ subdirectories:
> > 
> > configuring in tetex
> > running /bin/sh ./configure  --prefix=/usr --enable-ipc --without-dialog\
> >   --without-texinfo --with-system-ncurses --with-x --with-system-zlib \
> >   --with-system-pnglib --with-system-tifflib --with-system-wwwlib \
> >   --with-system-t1lib --disable-multiplatform --enable-shared \
> >   --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=${prefix}/share/info \
> >   --cache-file=.././config.cache --srcdir=.
> > loading cache .././config.cache
> > 
> > That is, dash replaced the first occurence of ${prefix} by the variable
> > expansion. This shouldn't happen, because it is enclosed in single
> > quotes. 
> 
> This is caused by dash's use of fnmatch(3) which appears to break
> on patterns containing [\]...].
> 
> Here is a sample program to demonstrate it.
> 
> #include 
> #include 
> 
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
>   printf("%d\n", fnmatch("[\\]a]", "a", 0));
>   return 0;
> }

fnmatch(3) references glob(7), which says:

   Character classes
   An expression `[...]' where the first character after the lead-
   ing `[' is not an `!' matches a single character, namely any of
   the characters enclosed by the brackets.  The  string  enclosed
   by  the  brackets cannot be empty; therefore `]' can be allowed
   between the brackets, provided that it is the first  character.
   (Thus,  `[][!]' matches the three characters `[', `]' and `!'.)

   ...

   One  can remove the special meaning of `?', `*' and `[' by pre-
   ceding them by a backslash, or, in case this is part of a shell
   command line, enclosing them in quotes.  Between brackets these
   characters stand for themselves.  Thus,  `[[?*\]'  matches  the
   four characters `[', `?', `*' and `\'.

Accordingly, I believe that the pattern in your example means
"backslash, followed by a, followed by closing square bracket", not what
you think it means.

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Re: Bug#240887: Package building problem.

2004-04-15 Thread Herbert Xu
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On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 01:59:01PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
> 
> This is how dash calls it in _some_ subdirectories:
> 
> configuring in tetex
> running /bin/sh ./configure  --prefix=/usr --enable-ipc --without-dialog\
>   --without-texinfo --with-system-ncurses --with-x --with-system-zlib \
>   --with-system-pnglib --with-system-tifflib --with-system-wwwlib \
>   --with-system-t1lib --disable-multiplatform --enable-shared \
>   --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=${prefix}/share/info \
>   --cache-file=.././config.cache --srcdir=.
> loading cache .././config.cache
> 
> That is, dash replaced the first occurence of ${prefix} by the variable
> expansion. This shouldn't happen, because it is enclosed in single
> quotes. 

This is caused by dash's use of fnmatch(3) which appears to break
on patterns containing [\]...].

Here is a sample program to demonstrate it.

#include 
#include 

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
printf("%d\n", fnmatch("[\\]a]", "a", 0));
return 0;
}

I will disable fnmatch(3) in dash for now.
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Re: Bug#240887: Package building problem.

2004-04-15 Thread Herbert Xu
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On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 01:59:01PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
> 
> This is how dash calls it in _some_ subdirectories:
> 
> configuring in tetex
> running /bin/sh ./configure  --prefix=/usr --enable-ipc --without-dialog\
>   --without-texinfo --with-system-ncurses --with-x --with-system-zlib \
>   --with-system-pnglib --with-system-tifflib --with-system-wwwlib \
>   --with-system-t1lib --disable-multiplatform --enable-shared \
>   --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=${prefix}/share/info \
>   --cache-file=.././config.cache --srcdir=.
> loading cache .././config.cache
> 
> That is, dash replaced the first occurence of ${prefix} by the variable
> expansion. This shouldn't happen, because it is enclosed in single
> quotes. 

This is caused by dash's use of fnmatch(3) which appears to break
on patterns containing [\]...].

Here is a sample program to demonstrate it.

#include 
#include 

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
printf("%d\n", fnmatch("[\\]a]", "a", 0));
return 0;
}

I will disable fnmatch(3) in dash for now.
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Email:  Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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