[alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/2] configure.in: don't rely on test -a, not all shells support it

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Fri Oct 8 10:31:53 CEST 2010


On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 at 09:06:58 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Notably, /bin/sh in Debian and Ubuntu is dash, which doesn't.

Sorry, I'd misinterpreted the error produced when grep fails (fixed by patch
1/2). Recent dash versions do support test -a, so patch 2/2 turns out to be
unnecessary on current Debian, although it might conceivably be useful for
backports to older Ubuntu versions.

    S
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