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changeset 16836:308e8faf5e8a
init.sh: explain why $EXEEXT support uses aliases rather than functions
* tests/init.sh: Add a comment.
| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> |
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| date | Tue, 08 May 2012 11:54:26 +0200 |
| parents | a80277ccfb15 |
| children | 579368b4bb16 |
| files | ChangeLog tests/init.sh |
| diffstat | 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ 2012-05-08 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> + init.sh: explain why EXEEXT support uses aliases rather than functions + * tests/init.sh: Add a comment. + init.sh: don't let bash aliases interfere with tests * tests/init.sh: Undefine any pre-defined aliases if the selected shell is bash. This avoids problems for those who alias standard commands to
--- a/tests/init.sh +++ b/tests/init.sh @@ -210,6 +210,11 @@ # If this is bash, turn off all aliases. test -n "$BASH_VERSION" && unalias -a +# Note that when supporting $EXEEXT (transparently mapping from PROG_NAME to +# PROG_NAME.exe), we want to support hyphen-containing names like test-acos. +# That is part of the shell-selection test above. Why use aliases rather +# than functions? Because support for hyphen-containing aliases is more +# widespread than that for hyphen-containing function names. test -n "$EXEEXT" && shopt -s expand_aliases # Enable glibc's malloc-perturbing option.