Re: [PATCH] flex: updated to 2.5.37

Richard Purdie
2013-05-12T07:50:59Z

On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 12:00 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 10 May 2013 11:50, Phil Blundell <philb@brightsign.biz> wrote:
> > Or you could replace the shell wrapper that create_wrapper() currently
> > generates with either a compiled binary or a Python script. That would
> > allow you to execl("/path/foo.real", "foo", ...), which I don't think
> > you can do in shell but which would avoid this whole class of problem.
>
> Bash can do that, but it's not POSIX. :/

I'm quite happy to have the wrapper as bash shell script. We only need
dash compatibility in things that get run under /bin/sh (i.e. bitbake
shell tasks).

Cheers,

Richard