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From: | Warren Young |
Subject: | Re: Specifying which shell to use |
Date: | Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:38:24 -0600 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) |
Dan Smithers wrote:
If I edit configure by hand to start #! /bin/bashit works.
You shouldn't be writing configure tests that depend on Bash.The whole point of autoconf is that it lets you test for features on a system whose capabilities you do not yet fully understand. One of those capabilities is exactly how functional the Bourne-style shell is. On some systems, you won't find Bash *at all*, and on others, you will find something that's crippled even by SysVR3 standards.
Your tests should cope with all of this, using only as much shell functionality as is available on *all* of the systems you want to port to.
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