From: Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Eselect Syntax Bug?
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 10:04:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090803100425.e83801b8.frank.peters@comcast.net> (raw)
I had first noticed this problem some time ago.
Running eselect, a bash script, always fails with the errors:
`ec_do_list-options': not a valid identifier
`ec_do_list-modules': not a valid identifier
This is not surprising. In bash, any variable or function should not
contain a hyphen because it could be mistaken for the subtraction
operator. Indeed, replacing these variables with
ec_do_list_options
ec_do_list_modules
completely fixes the problem and allows eselect to do its job normally.
But why has not such an obvious mistake been observed before?
Has anyone else executed an unmodified eselect without error?
Is there more to this issue than meets the eye?
I can't file a bug report on this until I get some confirmation.
Frank Peters
next reply other threads:[~2009-08-03 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-03 14:04 Frank Peters [this message]
2009-08-03 14:27 ` [gentoo-amd64] Eselect Syntax Bug? Josh Sled
2009-08-03 16:17 ` Frank Peters
2009-08-03 16:37 ` Frank Peters
2009-08-03 16:46 ` Josh Sled
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