Re: Change 33318: Shell patterns are subject to tilde expansion. So the case statement

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:33:45 +0000, Nicholas Clark <[email protected]> wrote:

> I believe that this fix also needs applying to Perl 1, as I found the same
> error in 1.0's Configure script.
> 
> I doubt anyone can find a Perl bug older than this one :-)
> 
> Nicholas Clark
> 
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> Subject: Change 33318: Shell patterns are subject to tilde expansion. So the case statement
> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:30:03 -0800 (PST)
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> Change 33318 by nicholas@minne on 2008/02/15 14:27:55
> 
> 	Shell patterns are subject to tilde expansion. So the case statement
> 	in the filexp script (written out by Configure) for expanding ~ and
> 	~/*  has never worked. It's always been relying on the /bin/csh glob
> 	for the ~* case. Few people ever noticed because one has to be
> 	building to one's home directory on a system with no csh installed.
> 	This is a bug from Perl 1.0's Configure!
> 
> Affected files ...
> 
> ... //depot/perl/Configure#683 edit
> 
> Differences ...
> 
> ==== //depot/perl/Configure#683 (xtext) ====
> Index: perl/Configure
> --- perl/Configure#682~33049~	2008-01-23 01:18:41.000000000 -0800
> +++ perl/Configure	2008-02-15 06:27:55.000000000 -0800
> @@ -3589,7 +3589,7 @@
>  $startsh
>  : expand filename
>  case "\$1" in
> - ~/*|~)
> + \~/*|\~)
>  	echo \$1 | $sed "s|~|\${HOME-\$LOGDIR}|"
>  	;;
>   ~*)
    ^
    Not this one?

> End of Patch.
> 
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