From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Harald van Dijk <harald@gigawatt.nl>
Cc: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [SHELL] Allow building without LINEO support.
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 06:35:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E4BB5A4.10702@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1313561086.28006.6.camel@linux>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-17 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-17 0:45 [PATCH 1/2] [SHELL] Allow building without LINEO support David Miller
2011-08-17 1:12 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-08-17 1:38 ` Herbert Xu
2011-08-17 2:07 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-08-17 6:04 ` Harald van Dijk
2011-08-17 12:35 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2011-08-17 1:36 ` Herbert Xu
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