Re: [PATCH 8/8] hook-list.h: add a generated list of hooks, like config-list.h

On 24/09/2021 20:30, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

On Fri, Sep 24 2021, Phillip Wood wrote:

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Hi Ævar
On 23/09/2021 11:30, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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diff --git a/generate-hooklist.sh b/generate-hooklist.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..6d4e56d1a31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/generate-hooklist.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Usage: ./generate-hooklist.sh >hook-list.h
+
+cat <<EOF
+/* Automatically generated by generate-hooklist.sh */
+
+static const char *hook_name_list[] = {
+EOF
+
+sed -n -e '/^~~~~*$/ {x; s/^.*$/	"&",/; p;}; x' \

POSIX does not support using a semicolon after a closing brace [1],
grepping our code base with
	git grep 'sed .*};' '*.sh'
does not give any matches so I don't think we're using that pattern
any where else. Replacing the semicolon with ' -e' would fix it.

Best Wishes

Phillip

Does this fail on any system you're aware of? If so what OS/version (and
preferably version of "sed").

I'm not aware of any such system but I rarely use anything other than 
linux. As this departure from POSIX is not already in the code base I 
thought it was worth flagging it. I did wonder if it would be supported 
by the various BSDs but you testing shows it is actually quite widely 
supported.

Best Wishes

Phillip

René's downthread [ref] seems to
suggest that this is fine.

Both beforehand and just now I've tested this on AIX, Solaris,
{Open,Net,Free}BSD, HP/UX, OSX and Linux (a few distros/versions).

All of them are able to generate the same hook-list.h using this version
of the patch.