203796 - configure faills with test: invalid argument

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Jim Brown]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OSF1 alpha; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021205
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OSF1 alpha; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/xx -> using current trunk

If I change the -g3 to -g from DEC OSF1 builds then configure fails to run.
If fails when trying to evaluate 'if test ! "-g"' because test is seeing the -g
instead of treating it as simple text.
 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Replace the only occurance of -g3 with -g in configure
2. Try to build (with debug) on OSF1
3. configure fails with invalid argument to test

Comment 1

[Jim Brown]

Attachment: v1.0 replace test ! "$x" with test -z "$x"

Replace two uses of 'test ! "$var"' with 'test -z "$var"' where $var can
contain a string that looks like an option (e.g. -g).  This is a very low risk
change.

There are eight other places this construct is used but the variable's value
should not look like a test option.

Comment 2

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

Comment on attachment 122014 [details] [diff] [review]
v1.0 replace test ! "$x" with test -z "$x"

a=sspitzer

Comment 3

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

Patch has been checked in.