possible gcc bug?

[Andreas Schwab]

George R Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com> writes:

> This error message appears because line 500 of the configure script has an improperly(?) formed if statement: Â Â Â  
>
>
> 500Â Â  if ls -dL / >/dev/null 2>&1; then

This statement is perfectly correct.  It is testing the exit code of
executing the ls command.  Your problem is definitely somewhere else.

> when changed to the following, the message goes away:
>
> 500Â Â  if [ ls -dL / >/dev/null 2>&1 ]; then

This would be an errorneous use of the test builtin, hidden only due to
fact that stderr is redirected to /dev/null.

$ test ls -dL /
-bash: test: -dL: binary operator expected

Andreas.

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