[GRASS-dev] [bug #5499] (grass) bash scripts starting with #!/bin/sh

[Glynn Clements]

Daniel Calvelo wrote:

> Ok, I've changed d.correlate, d.polar, d.vect.thematic and g.mlist.
> The other hits were either awk, r.mapcalc, or r.tileset :)
> 
> BTW there are lots of 'if test "$GISBASE" = ""; then' ; was this a
> preferred method to -z for some reason? Is there some risk involved?

If there's a shell out there which has a problem with -z, it isn't
going to like the configure scripts which autoconf generates, as they
use -z to test for an empty string.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>