[pacman-dev] makepkg: package splitting

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I have finished implementing the basics of package splitting in makepkg.
>>>  Everything works as expected when just making packages and capturing
>>> logs
>>> but there is some small output issues that need tidying up and checking
>>> that
>>> other functionality work (e.g. repackaging is an issue....)
>>>
>>
>> I like the PKGBUILD format. It seems nice. What happens, though, with
>> packages that have goofy chars in the name? say... libsigc++ - let's
>> pretend I wanted to split that. Do we have a workaround
>
> Do we need a workaround?
>
> test.sh:
> #! /bin/bash
>
> a+() {
>   echo "Function with goofy chars works"
> }
>
> a+
> [EOF]
>
>> ./test.sh
> Function with goofy chars works

Well, color me stupid! I thought bash functions used C restrictions...
alphanumeric and underscore.