[pacman-dev] bash scripts errexit and nounset options

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 19:12:06 EDT 2009


On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> How does set -u work when you test if a variable exists?  e.g. in makepkg we
> test if "$install" is non-null.
>

It can be defined and null. That just means we have to declare all
variables we use. So this change would certainly require additional
declarations. I guess more safety comes at a price :)


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