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Re: Procmail rejects zsh as being "broken"
- X-seq: zsh-workers 1861
- From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Zsh hackers list), borsenkow.msk@xxxxxx
- Subject: Re: Procmail rejects zsh as being "broken"
- Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 10:40:59 +0200
- In-reply-to: "borsenkow.msk@xxxxxx"'s message of "Thu, 01 Aug 1996 12:28:50 MET." <Pine.SV4.3.95.960801121636.4508C-100000@itsrm1>
borsenkow.msk@xxxxxx wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I recently installed procmail-3.11pre4 under zsh-3.0pre4. When running
> 'make init' procmail gave me warning, that `/opt/local/bin/zsh is broken'.
> I checked initmake script and here is relevant part:
>
> case "$SHELL" in
> ...
> *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 ;;
>
> The test seems to imply, that in
> % foo="echo test > test"
> % $foo
>
> the line is to be rescanned for I/O redirections *after* foo is expanded.
> I am not aware of any shell to behave this way.
>
> Do I miss something? What is the sense of this test? And why it is done
> only for zsh ;)?
No, I think it's an incorrect test: it should probably be something like
O="touch src/_autost"
if what they're doing is testing for word splitting. But if that *is*
the point, since the test is only for zsh, why don't they simply issue
`setopt shwordsplit' which works in every single version of zsh?
--
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