From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 10:22:51 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] 2016.11-rc2 with really old versions of bash (RHEL5) In-Reply-To: <45a3d09a-6045-638e-7e97-c4ecf1073054@mind.be> References: <20161113210740.3a8cedb2@free-electrons.com> <582ce22d87e4_b6b11ecfac31990@ultri3.mail> <20161116231312.GA27675@free.fr> <7725a865-0665-5747-6bfb-518224e3825b@mind.be> <20161119083909.GA3614@free.fr> <45a3d09a-6045-638e-7e97-c4ecf1073054@mind.be> Message-ID: <20161119092251.GB3614@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'