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

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:58:48PM +0000, Martin Spott wrote:
> Sandro Santilli wrote:
> > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:17:42AM +0000, Martin Spott wrote:
> >> While we're at it:
> >> 
> >> --- postgis_restore.pl~       Tue May 21 04:11:45 2013
> >> +++ postgis_restore.pl        Tue May 21 04:11:45 2013
> >> @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
> >>  my $SRID_MAXIMUM = 999999;
> >>  my $SRID_USER_MAXIMUM = 998999; 
> >>  
> >> -while (@ARGV && $ARGV[0] =~ /-/) {
> >> +if (@ARGV && $ARGV[0] =~ /-/) {
> >>    if ( $ARGV[0] eq '-v' ) {
> >>      $DEBUG = 1;
> >>      shift(@ARGV);
> > 
> > That would only process the first option, rather than all of them, no ?
> 
> "while" is a loop which requires some sort of input to work, but the
> clause in braces doesn't return any input.  Therefore, as shipped in
> SVN, it waits forever.

This works for me:

perl -e 'while (@ARGV && $ARGV[0] =~ /-/) {
 print shift(@ARGV),"\n"; }
' -- -a -b -c

doesn't it work there ?

This is perl 5, version 14, subversion 2 (v5.14.2)
built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi

--strk;