[haiku-development] Re: [PATCH] Buildutils on Solaris (was: Buildutils on powerpc)
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:28:49 +0200 CEST
Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > One of the isses seemed to be the use of "local" in configure. But
> > since we should add a notice to the ReadMe anyway concerning gawk,
> > we
> > could just as well instruct the user to invoke `/bin/bash
> > configure ...` there, less work for us. :-) The build_haiku_image
> > script for instance works nicely in Bourne Shell.
> Yeah, IIRC François already had a go at it, e.g. replacing perfectly
> POSIX-legal $(...) by `...` (so no, Solaris' shell is not POSIX-
> compliant).
> I'm all in favor for having the user explicitly invoke the configure
> script
> with a POSIX-compliant shell.
Agreed, we should just mention this in the ReadMe, maybe with a list of
shells or default shells in operating systems that aren't POSIX
compliant :-)
Bye,
Axel.
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