From: srb@cuci.nl (Stephen R. van den Berg)
To: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
Cc: pws@ifh.de, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Procmail rejects zsh as being "broken"
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 16:44:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199608011444.QAA30597@hera.cuci.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Zoltan Hidvegi's message as of 1996 Aug 1 Thu 15:02. <199608011302.PAA27110@bolyai.cs.elte.hu>
Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu> wrote:
>Well, when zsh is invoked as zsh it does not pretend to be Bourne shell
>compatible.
Ah, a misconception on my part. I've always seen zsh "advertised" as
Bourne shell compatible.
>as sh. The complicated *zsh* test in procmail is unnecessary. It'll never
>work.
I didn't know that. I thought it was an oversight of zsh developers in
the default settings of zsh. Now I know better, of course.
> The problem is that procmail tells that zsh is broken. Zsh is not
>broken, it is simply different from a Bourne shell when invoked as zsh.
>Procmail should just inform the user that it uses /bin/sh or whatever
>instead of zsh and should not spread misinformation about zsh.
Fair enough. The problem in this case transposes itself to "make" then.
"make" *has* to make that SHELL is set to a Bourne shell compatible
shell. If it leaves it at zsh, it's a bug.
In that light, we'll avoid the test and change the diagnostics to:
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/lib/cvs/procmail/initmake,v
retrieving revision 1.66
diff -u -r1.66 initmake
--- initmake 1996/07/29 18:48:23 1.66
+++ initmake 1996/08/01 14:42:50
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
case "$BSHELL" in
*zsh*) ;;
*) echo "(If I wouldn't know better, I'd say you're trying to sell"
- echo "me a buggy zsh :-)" ;;
+ echo "me an incompatible zsh :-)" ;;
esac
echo "Please edit the Makefile and try setting BSHELL to a shell which"
echo "is more backwards compatible with a Bourne, Korn or POSIX shell."
@@ -55,17 +55,7 @@
case "$SHELL" in
*sh*)
case "$SHELL" in
- *csh*) echo "Warning: really perverted make detected"; SHELL="";;
- *zsh*) $RM src/_autotst
- $SHELL <<HERE
- O="echo test >src/_autotst"
- exec 2>$DEVNULL
- \$O
-HERE
- if test ! -f src/_autotst
- then
- echo "Warning: your $SHELL is broken, avoiding it"; SHELL=""
- fi ;;
+ *[zc]sh*) echo "Warning: really perverted make detected"; SHELL="";;
esac
if test ! -z "$SHELL"
then
--
Sincerely, srb@cuci.nl
Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).
Auto repair rates: basic labor $40/hour; if you wait, $60; if you watch, $80;
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-08-01 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-08-01 8:28 Andrej Borsenkow
1996-08-01 8:40 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-08-01 11:29 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
1996-08-01 11:43 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-08-01 12:04 ` Zefram
1996-08-01 12:11 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-08-01 12:33 ` Zefram
1996-08-01 13:00 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-08-01 12:23 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
1996-08-01 13:02 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-01 13:07 ` Bruce Stephens
1996-08-01 14:44 ` Stephen R. van den Berg [this message]
1996-08-01 14:59 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-02 0:54 ` Zefram
1996-08-02 0:59 ` Zefram
1996-08-02 1:20 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
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