Re: Building on Solaris : /bin/sh != bash

[Sander Vesik <sv117949 ireland sun com>]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Justin C. Ferguson wrote:

> 
> When last we left our heros, they were speaking of:
> > 
> > On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 03:44, Tomas Ogren wrote:
> > 
> > > Hm. it seems to be included, sorry.. but not installed if you do a
> > > jumpstart with the SUNWCXall cluster which is "Entire Distribution Plus
> > > OEM Support" .. So I guess it won't be installed if you just click on
> > > that in the install program either.. It's optional, so assuming it
> > > exists _will_ break stuff.. (and AIX, IRIX, HP-UX, ...)
> 
> > Trust me on this - bash, zsh and tcsh are now a standard part of
> > Solaris, and if they aren't getting installed for you you have an
> > configuration issue.  Trust me on knowing this - see my second email
> > address below. ;O)
> 	
> > I wasn't suggesting that the configure scripts just altered the line
> > without checking, however.  You're *not* going to convince the Linux
> > people here to re-write their scripts for a different shell to the one
> [...snip...]
> > for a while before it became standard).  That would solve *so* many
> > problems here, and would be unnoticed by most Solaris 8 and 9 users from
> > now on.  It would just work. =O)
> 
> 	Sure, this is all well and good...for Solaris and Linux users.  There
> _are_ people out there who use _other_ operating systems than Solaris or 
> Linux, and those (mentioned by Tomas above) don't come with bash preinstalled.
> Sure, you can download it and compile it, but is that really an excuse for 
> writing what is essentially non-portable code (albeit shell code)?  The line
> about not being able to convince the Linux people here to re-write their 
> scripts for a different shell just scares me...so GNOME is now for Solaris 
> and Linux only?  
> 

Actually - if it uses bashisms and is pointed at /bin/sh (or say has a
space between the ! and the shell name) it won't work for Solaris aswell,
as bash is definately not /bin/sh 

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