tech-pkg: Re: use of [ -e ${file} ]

Subject: Re: use of [ -e ${file} ]
To: Georg Schwarz <geos@epost.de>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/22/2004 07:55:10

On 2004年5月22日, Georg Schwarz wrote:
> My problem is now that IRIX 5.3's test does not support at all a -e
> option, thus I get an error message here. I am not sure about other
> operating systems. Those which use GNU or BSD code should most likely
> not have that problem.
>
> I am looking for suggestions how to solve that problem. For
Also, notice that mk/bsd.pkg.mk uses test (or [) -e several times.
And I'd assume that many packages have configuration or build scripts that
also use it.
 Jeremy C. Reed
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