Re: Non-POSIX shells

[Steve Swales <Steve Swales sun com>]

Havoc wrote:
>If we're going to require something funky it should be a reasonable
>build tool instead of make/autoconf/libtool jury-rigging. ;-)

agreed

>I don't think there's a reason to make Solaris users install bash,
>it's easy to use `` instead of $().

I realize it was just an example, but bash is actually pre-installed on Solaris 
since Solaris 8.  I do agree that people should try to stick to the POSIX 
semantics for shell scripts.

-steve

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