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To:	"'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: bash's 'test' is inconsistent on XP (causing autoconf testsuite failures)
Date:	Sun, 6 Jan 2002 17:42:30 +0100
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> > What annoys me is that '.' doesn't have the same behaviour; I'm
> > OK with test -f returning true, but then '.' should work without
> > complaining.
> 
> What exactly is the problem with "."?  I'm afraid I didn't quite
> understand that from your original message.

configure loads its cache file at startup; as of autoconf 2.5x, the
cache file defaults to /dev/null (i.e. cache disabled).
So it runs ". /dev/null", which in our bash gives:

 $ . /dev/null
 bash.exe: .: /dev/null: not a regular file

Normally, this is fine, because configure first uses 'test -f' to
ensure it IS a regular file.  Unfortunately, our bash's 'test -f'
thinks it IS a regular file, while its '.' doesn't.

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