Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add infrastructure for translating Git with gettext

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

It turns out that this doesn't actually work, and I can't find a
workaround. In Bash and Solaris's /bin/sh this executes until "dies
here". The problem is that I can't use the subshell trick, since the
gettext.sh inclusion has to be done in the current shell (I checked,
tests will fail).

    #!/bin/sh
    (. does-not-exist.sh)
    echo "A subshell made it! ret = $?"
    . does-not-exist.sh
  # dies here
    echo "A real shell made it! ret = $?"

Is there some clever shellscript trick that I'm missing, or will I
have to resort to modifying the file at `make' time for this to work
everywhere?

Works for me in bash (4.0.35), but fails the way you say in dash (if
only I could figure out the option that tells me the version!).

This works however:

  type does-not-exist.sh 2>/dev/null && . does-not-exist.sh

I suspect it only works if the script is executable, as otherwise type
would not find it (but . would).  But at least on my system, it is.

-- 
Thomas Rast
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