[postgis-devel] Building the extension on Solaris/amd64

Sandro Santilli strk at keybit.net
Sat May 25 11:14:59 PDT 2013


On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 05:30:32PM +0000, Martin Spott wrote:
> Martin Spott wrote:
> > Sandro Santilli wrote:
> > 
> >> Note that in the scenario above the next iteration finds
> >> the dumpfile name NOT starting with a dash, which is enough
> >> to stop. But if your filename really starts with a dash you're
> >> indeed doomed.
> > 
> > Actually it wasn't enough to stop and my dumpfile name didn't start
> > with a dash.
> > In Perl "while", in order to exit a loop, it's _not_ sufficient not to
> > have a "true" condition, instead you really need an explicit "false".
> 
> Oh, stupid me, please disregard that one ....
> Actually my dumpfile name didn't *start* with a dash, but it
> *contained* a dash - which sufficiently matches /-/

A-ha! This one fixed with r11501 :)

--strk;



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