From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH] documentation: Makefile accounts for SHELL_PATH setting Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:03:02 -0400 Message-ID: <20090323140302.GA11005@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <1237728044-15651-1-git-send-email-bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca> <20090323065710.GA7048@coredump.intra.peff.net> <1237812904-sup-3864@ntdws12.chass.utoronto.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: GIT List To: Ben Walton X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 23 15:06:06 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Llkms-0004ra-2o for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:05:58 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756635AbZCWODL (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:03:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757352AbZCWODK (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:03:10 -0400 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:54880 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755087AbZCWODJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:03:09 -0400 Received: (qmail 21389 invoked by uid 107); 23 Mar 2009 14:03:19 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:03:19 -0400 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:03:02 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1237812904-sup-3864@ntdws12.chass.utoronto.ca> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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