[haiku-development] Re: [PATCH] Buildutils on Solaris (was: Buildutils on powerpc)

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:09:36 +0200 CEST

Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx> wrote:
> This change was not supposed to be applied. Whether or not Bourne
> Shell is POSIX-compliant, replacing it is not an option. There are a
> lot of bashisms around that are not necessarily POSIX. Anyway, a
> better solution is to do /bin/bash configure ... but this way it's
> more convenient for me in my copy. In case we need it in more
> scripts,
> we should make sure that Jam uses the current shell for, e.g., build/
>
> scripts/*.

If you encounter any particular "bashisms", I would then just file a
bug report for them - preferrably with a patch that fixes them, of
course ;-))

Bye,
   Axel.


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