From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Blake Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [SHELL] Allow building without LINEO support. Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 06:35:48 -0600 Message-ID: <4E4BB5A4.10702@redhat.com> References: <20110816.174502.2209127983953431973.davem@davemloft.net> <20110817011235.GA22867@elie.gateway.2wire.net> <1313561086.28006.6.camel@linux> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:40976 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752630Ab1HQMgZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:36:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1313561086.28006.6.camel@linux> Sender: dash-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: dash@vger.kernel.org To: Harald van Dijk Cc: dash@vger.kernel.org On 08/17/2011 12:04 AM, Harald van Dijk wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 20:12 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> David Miller wrote: >> >>> [Subject: [SHELL] Allow building without LINEO support.] >> >> Thanks! Debian has been using something like this (but unconditional) >> to convince autoconf not to use dash as CONFIG_SHELL, to work around >> bugs in various configure scripts[1]. I imagine other users might >> want the same thing, so a patch like this seems like a good idea. > > If you don't mind me asking, if you want configure scripts to run from > bash, why not simply run configure scripts from bash, instead of running > them from sh and trusting that sh will call bash if it is really some > other shell? And remember, most configure scripts already support that: CONFIG_SHELL=path/to/bash path/to/bash ./configure -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org