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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>
Cc: GIT List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] documentation: Makefile accounts for SHELL_PATH setting
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:03:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090323140302.GA11005@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1237812904-sup-3864@ntdws12.chass.utoronto.ca>

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 08:57:27AM -0400, Ben Walton wrote:

> That's a fair point.  I've been lugging this around for a bit in the
> build tree I use, so I don't recall specifically what was breaking.
> The sh in question is the one found in solaris 8.  When I get a few
> mintues, I'll build without the patch to see what the problem was...

I wouldn't worry about it. The /bin/sh on Solaris 8 is pretty hopelessly
broken for our use. At the very least it doesn't understand $()
subsititution.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-23 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-22 13:20 [PATCH] documentation: Makefile accounts for SHELL_PATH setting Ben Walton
2009-03-23  6:57 ` Jeff King
2009-03-23 12:57   ` Ben Walton
2009-03-23 14:03     ` Jeff King [this message]
2009-03-23 14:12       ` Mike Hommey
2009-04-10  0:34 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-04-11 20:42   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-12  1:49     ` Ben Walton
2009-04-12  8:28       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-13 14:21         ` Ben Walton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-03-21  2:40 Ben Walton
2009-03-21  3:22 ` Jeff King
2009-03-21 11:38   ` Ben Walton
2009-03-22  6:19     ` Jeff King

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