[libvirt] [PATCH] freebsd: Avoid /bin/true in commandtest

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Thu Jul 28 17:15:51 UTC 2011


On 07/28/2011 09:52 AM, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> Rely on PATH and use just true, because on FreeBSD it's /usr/bin/true.

What fun.  The autoconf manual has this gem under true, apropos to the 
current patch:

| when asked whether false is more portable than true Alexandre Oliva 
answered:
|
|     In a sense, yes, because if it doesn't exist, the shell will 
produce an exit status of failure, which is correct for false, but not 
for true.

http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Limitations-of-Builtins

> ---
>   tests/commanddata/test16.log |    2 +-
>   tests/commandtest.c          |    6 +++---
>   2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

ACK.

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