From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Hommey Subject: Re: [PATCH] documentation: Makefile accounts for SHELL_PATH setting Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:12:39 +0100 Message-ID: <20090323141238.GA14722@glandium.org> References: <1237728044-15651-1-git-send-email-bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca> <20090323065710.GA7048@coredump.intra.peff.net> <1237812904-sup-3864@ntdws12.chass.utoronto.ca> <20090323140302.GA11005@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Ben Walton , GIT List To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 23 15:14:55 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 1LlkvQ-0008VK-5f for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:14:48 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757987AbZCWOMz (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:12:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758029AbZCWOMy (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:12:54 -0400 Received: from vuizook.err.no ([85.19.221.46]:37835 "EHLO vuizook.err.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757987AbZCWOMx (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:12:53 -0400 Received: from cha92-13-88-165-248-19.fbx.proxad.net ([88.165.248.19] helo=vaio.glandium.org) by vuizook.err.no with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LlktN-0008VK-QB; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:12:44 +0100 Received: from mh by vaio.glandium.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LlktL-0004BL-9a; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:12:39 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090323140302.GA11005@coredump.intra.peff.net> X-GPG-Fingerprint: A479 A824 265C B2A5 FC54 8D1E DE4B DA2C 54FD 2A58 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mh@glandium.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on vaio.glandium.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Spam-Status: (score 0.1): No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=disabled version=3.2.4 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 10:03:02AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > 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. Neither does it on solaris 10. Fortunately, there is /usr/xpg4/bin/sh. Mike