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

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Sun Oct 17 11:06:37 CEST 2010


At Fri, 8 Oct 2010 09:31:53 +0100,
Simon McVittie wrote:
> 
> 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.

Yeah, the patch is still useful.  I applied it with added "older" word
in the changelog.


thanks,

Takashi


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