Re: New auxiliary archive script

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 11:04:29PM CEST:
> On 08/04/2010 02:18 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >> # strip leading dash in $action
> >> case $action in
> >>   -*) action="${action#-}" ;;
> >> esac
> > 
> > The case statement is unnecessary, you can use just
> >   action=${action#-}
> 
> Either way, this assumes an XSI shell.  Are we guaranteed that this
> script will only run on hosts where all shells understand this, or is it
> likely to trip up on Solaris /bin/sh?

Rationale for just assuming an XSI shell for now was that users must be
pretty desparate to try to build using the MSVC compiler on Solaris.
Does wine work on Solaris?  If so, then that is at least a theoretical
possibility; but in this case, since 'archive' is a new feature and thus
no reason to fear regressions, I'm willing to just give this test
balloon a try.

Cheers,
Ralf