Re: Non-POSIX shells
- From: ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org>
- To: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- Cc: GNOME hackers <gnome-hackers gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Non-POSIX shells
- Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 22:08:47 +0100 (CET)
On 5 Mar 2002, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> If we're going to require something funky it should be a reasonable
> build tool instead of make/autoconf/libtool jury-rigging. ;-)
>
> I don't think there's a reason to make Solaris users install bash,
> it's easy to use `` instead of $().
if by `easy' you mean `can be solved with 5 to 10 minutes of shell
escaping trickery', then yes.
If by `easy' you mean `just change $() to ``' then it's not.
the patch is in Kenneth's mailbox.
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