From: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] 2016.11-rc2 with really old versions of bash (RHEL5)
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 10:22:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161119092251.GB3614@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45a3d09a-6045-638e-7e97-c4ecf1073054@mind.be>
Arnout, All,
On 2016-11-19 10:05 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 19-11-16 09:39, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > But oh well... We still need to know whether we still consider RHEL5 as
> > our oldest (unoffocially) supported platform, or if we just bite the
> > bullet and require bash-4.
>
> ThomasDS asked if it would be possible to support RHEL5 if you don't use
> BR2_EXTERNAL. Do you think that's feasible?
No.
Well, all is possible. But the cost would be too high, IMHO...
I have a patch locally that fakes asociative arrays usingeval as you
suggested. I'm testing it right now (it still works fien with bash-4,
at least! :-)). If it works with bash-3.1, I'll send it.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-19 9:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-13 20:07 [Buildroot] Buildroot 2016.11-rc2 released Thomas Petazzoni
2016-11-16 22:48 ` [Buildroot] 2016.11-rc2 with really old versions of bash (RHEL5) Ricardo Martincoski
2016-11-16 23:13 ` Yann E. MORIN
2016-11-17 22:41 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-11-19 8:39 ` Yann E. MORIN
2016-11-19 9:05 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-11-19 9:22 ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
2016-11-16 23:14 ` Max Filippov
2016-11-17 22:43 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-11-18 4:50 ` Ricardo Martincoski
2016-11-18 11:19 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
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