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From: "Laurynas Biveinis" <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:25:25 +0200
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Subject: Re: bash's 'test' is inconsistent on XP (causing autoconf testsuite failures)
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>   if test -f $cache_file; then
>     ... source the cache file
>   fi
> 
> Unfortunately, our bash (2.05) returns 'true' for
> 'test -f /dev/null'; so it claims that /dev/null is a
> regular file and then complains it isn't.  So either
> 'test' or '.' needs fixing.

I've seen this some time ago under win98se and it turned out
to be a bug in bash. I've sent a fix to Mark. Mark, do you include
it in latest version?

Laurynas