Re: [Bashburn-info] Nick, I'm reverting the change you made to configfunc.sh

[Steven W. O. <st...@sy...>]

On Monday, Sep 29th 2008 at 13:41 -0000, quoth Nick Warne:

=>On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:38:13 -0400 (EDT)
=>"Steven W. Orr" <st...@sy...> wrote:
=>
=>> On Monday, Sep 29th 2008 at 13:29 -0000, quoth Nick Warne:
=>> 
=>> =>On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:25:56 +0100
=>> =>Nick Warne <ni...@li...> wrote:
=>> =>
=>> =>> On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:21:47 -0400 (EDT)
=>> =>> "Steven W. Orr" <st...@sy...> wrote:
=>> =>>  
=>> =>> > Just so you know what's happening, 
=>> =>> > 
=>> =>> >     (( ${!BB_CONFIG_VAR} == 0 )) && return 1
=>> =>> > 
=>> =>> > says, "Indirect through BB_CONFIG_VAR and see if it's value is
=>> 0. =>> > BB_CONFIG_VAR is only ever equal to either
=>> BB_CONFIG_MODIFIED or =>> > BB_ADVANCED_CONFIG_MODIFIED.  Both of
=>> those variables are declared =>> > to be of type integer using
=>> typeset -i =>> > 
=>> =>> > typeset -i BB_CONFIG_MODIFIED=0
=>> =>> > typeset -i BB_ADVANCED_CONFIG_MODIFIED=0
=>> =>> > 
=>> =>> > So, if you test (( ${BB_CONFIG_VAR} == 0 )) it will always be
=>> =>> > false. And if you test to see if it's equal to 'true' then
=>> that's a =>> > problem also because you're testing it inside an
=>> arithmetic test, =>> > i.e. (( )) instead of [[ ]]. Because bash does
=>> not require integer =>> > variables to be preceeded by a dollarsign
=>> in an arithmetic context, =>> > it should complain that there is no
=>> variable called true but =>> > instead it just converts the true to a
=>> 1 because it's not equal to =>> > 0.
=>> =>> > 
=>> =>> > Something is going on where you might have (for some reason I
=>> don't =>> > know about) a value for BB_CONFIG_VAR of null ("").
=>> =>> > 
=>> =>> > I need to see more about why you're getting a syntax problem.
=>> =>> > 
=>> =>> > 
=>> =>> 
=>> =>> Attached in script output.
=>> =>
=>> =>Ummm.  WTF.  Bloody thing got stripped of the mail - let me gzip it.
=>> 
=>> I just checked in a change. Tell me if it fixes it for you.
=>> 
=>> Also, what rev of bash are you running?
=>> 
=>Nope, same issue.
=>
=>GNU bash, version 3.1.17(2)-release (i486-slackware-linux-gnu)
=>Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Don't know what to say. Can you start putting print statements in? When 
you go into bbconfmenu, BB_CONFIG_VAR *has* to be one or the other.

You can see it being set in configure and advanced.

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