X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:48:34 +0200 From: Samuel Thibault To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: \r in variables and test Message-ID: <20070422174834.GY7781@interface.famille.thibault.fr> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20070422170609.GV7781@interface.famille.thibault.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Michael Hoffman, le Sun 22 Apr 2007 18:40:29 +0100, a écrit : > >In a ./configure script, I call a test program (native python, actually) > >that outputs "True\r\n" and I put this result in variable foo. The > >problem is that [ "$foo" = True ] doesn't return true because foo > >actually contains True\r, not True. > > * use Cygwin Python I precisely don't want to do that. > * change the Python script to output \n instead of \r\n I'm not maintainer of the python script. > * [ $foo = $'True\r' ] This then won't work for cygwin's python. > * [ ${foo/%$'\r'/} = True ] This looks saner, but shouldn't the test program always do this itself? Anyhow, the place that needs to be fixed is rather /us/share/autoconf-archive/ac_python_devel.m4 Samuel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/