[OE-core] [PATCH] classes: Replace "if test" file tests with POSIX file tests

[Peter Kjellerstedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org
> [mailto:openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of
> Robert P. J. Day
> Sent: den 28 mars 2017 11:57
> To: Richard Purdie
> Cc: OE Core mailing list
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] classes: Replace "if test" file tests
> with POSIX file tests
> 
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2017, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2017-03-25 at 14:03 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > In entire meta/classes/ directory, replace shell tests of the form
> > > "if test -? ..." with POSIX tests of the form "if [ -? ...
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
> > >
> > > ---
> > >
> > >   as i cannot abide those silly "if test" constructs, i zipped
> > > through
> > > and changed them to POSIX form. is there any objection to this kind
> > > of
> > > cleanup? next up ... all those "x${VAR} = x" tests ...
> >
> > I've merged most of this. There were pieces of the diff that simply
> > didn't apply so I skipped them.
> >
> > The reason I've taken what applied is that this is very expensive
> > for us to test right now and I made the most of the testing time I
> > had on the weekend. The issue is changes to the core classes rebuild
> > everything so we can't reuse sstate and the tests are much slower.
> >
> > We're running late with M3 rc2 but just about to build it and I
> > thought it was worth getting some of this in rather none at all.
> > Please do figure out the remaining pieces and send them and we may
> > or may not tweak the remaining bits in M4.
> 
>   my next cleanup was going to be (as mentioned above) replace all
> those silly "x${VAR} = x" string tests with either of:
> 
>   [ -z "${VAR}" ]
>   [ -n "${VAR}" ]

There is no reason to have the -n in there. This is better:

  [ -z "${VAR}" ]
  [ "${VAR}" ]

> is there time to get that in before the next freeze? if so, i can do
> it quickly for testing; if not, i guess it can just wait.
> 
> rday

//Peter