[aur-general] Review my PKGBUILDs

Adam Weiss adam at archlinux.us
Fri Feb 4 13:55:32 EST 2011


On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 13:47, Vojtech Horky <vojtech.horky at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/2/4 Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com>:
>> On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 09:07:07AM -0500, Adam Weiss wrote:
>>> Hey all,
>> ...
>>
>> in openscenegraph-svn:
>>> if [ $_downloadsampledata == 'True' ] ; then
>>
>> this is invalid syntax, as == is not a valid operator for [. makepkg
>> uses bash, so please use the keyword [[ instead of the builtin [.
>
> Just a thought: how about assigning _downloadsampledata=true (the
> executable /bin/true or /bin/false) and then making the "if" even
> shorter and maybe more readable:
> if $_downloadsampledata; then
> ...
> fi
>
> - Vojta
>

Vojta,

I'll have to try it out a bit, the use for 'True' is that it can be
used directly by CMake that way, I'll have to see what it does if bash
boolean is printed out for the value.

Thanks,
-Adam


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