Re: [PATCH 0/2] First steps in making autoconf ensure a POSIX shell

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 05:33:54PM +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On 11/07/2012 04:41 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > On 11/07/2012 04:37 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> >> I want to be able to assume the make recipes
> >> are run by a POSIX shell.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Are all the features you're testing for specified by
> > POSIX 1003.2-1992? (That is, are they all suitably *old* POSIX?)
> >
> I'm not really sure: I only looked at the last standard available
> online on the Austing Group site:
> 
> <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html>
> 
> In any case, the features required seem common and simple enough, and
> I'd rather start aiming a little high, and then lower our expectations
> if we hit a real-world shell that doesn't support all the features
> we are testing
>...

That sounds like a recipe for getting emergency 2.71, 2.72 and 2.73 
releases, plus bad press as a bonus.

> Thanks,
>   Stefano

cu
Adrian

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