From: "Christoph Egger" <Christoph.Egger@amd.com>
To: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: "portable" sh is not...
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:14:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710231414.38981.Christoph.Egger@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071023115443.GA29012@totally.trollied.org.uk>
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 13:54:43 John Levon wrote:
> This commit:
>
> http://xenbits.xensource.com/staging/xen-unstable.hg?rev/08295dc13166
>
> broke our build. The script is not portable as claimed (e.g. traditional
> Bourne shell has no $( ... ) construct).
The only one bash-specific thing I could find was the [:alpha:] notion.
This changeset makes it work on BSD's /bin/sh.
Looks like BSD's /bin/sh is not that traditional... :)
> Christoph, why is this necessary? Surely *BSD have /bin/bash
No, they have not. They have /bin/sh, /bin/ksh and /bin/csh.
bash is a third-party package.
Christoph
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-23 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-23 11:54 "portable" sh is not John Levon
2007-10-23 12:14 ` Christoph Egger [this message]
2007-10-23 12:20 ` John Levon
2007-10-23 12:27 ` Christoph Egger
2007-10-23 12:34 ` John Levon
2007-10-23 12:41 ` Christoph Egger
2007-10-23 13:14 ` John Levon
2007-10-23 13:23 ` Christoph Egger
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