Re: is it a bug?

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 03:40:01PM +0100, Daniel Roethlisberger wrote:
> David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> 2009-03-04:
> > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 03:02:54PM +0800, wangyj wrote:
> > > i do this
> > > sh configure (it's ok)
> > > make    (it's ok too)
> > > make install
> > >
> > > running install_data
> > > if [ ! -e /usr/local/bin/nmapfe -o -L /usr/local/bin/nmapfe ]; then \
> > >         ln -sf zenmap /usr/local/bin/nmapfe; \
> > > fi
> > > /bin/sh: test: unknow operation /usr/local/bin/nmapfe
> > > make: *** [install-zenmap] Error 1
> >
> > What operating system is this on? I guess the [ line isn't portable. If
> > you tell us the OS we can look up the man page and rewrite the test.
>
> Solaris /bin/sh does not have test -e (as opposed to
> /usr/xpg4/bin/sh, which does).  In this context, I think -f
> instead of -e should preserve the behaviour and be more portable.

So you have access to Solaris? If you can give this a quick test then go
ahead and check in a fix. Changing -e to -f sounds good, but if it
doesn't have -e it might not have -L either. The idea behind the test is
that we'll create or update a symlink to point to Zenmap, but we don't
want to delete somebody's copy of NmapFE if they still use it.

David Fifield

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