Re: Non-POSIX shells
- From: Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>
- To: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- Cc: ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org>, GNOME hackers <gnome-hackers gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Non-POSIX shells
- Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 21:27:48 +0000 (GMT)
On 5 Mar 2002, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org> writes:
> > What's the official word on non-POSIX shells and their relation to
> > Makefiles and Autoconf scripts? Can't we simply require a POSIX shell? (we
> > also require some external-to-GNOME libraries (the image loader libraries
> > pop to my mind), so this wouldn't be earth-shattering)
> >
> > I'm asking because of http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73381
> >
>
> 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 $().
Solaris users may well have bash installed, but that doesn't help *unless*
the script actualy asks for bash and doesn't just pretend that it lives in
a world where everybody has /bin/sh or /usr/bin/sh being bash. The same
applies if you do s/bash/ksh/ or similar.
As the open group afaik has the unix9x specs (that are superset of posix
with descriptions of what is extendedd) online, its fairly easy to check
what is required/can be expected of shells 8-)
>
> Havoc
>
Sander
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