Re: [Quilt-dev] 0.50 in Debian + Simple patch for inclusion: Fix manpage generation under dash

[Jean Delvare]

On Monday 09 January 2012 03:20:21 pm Martin Quinson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 02:50:12PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > On Mon, 09 Jan 2012, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > I'd like to make sure I understand your problem so that we can
> > > come up with a solution. You're using dash as your /bin/sh
> > > implementation. What is the reason for this? Is it a performance
> > > issue? Or is bash really not available at build time?
> >
> > Performance is the reason, yes.
> >
> > bash is always available as /bin/bash.
> >
> > > I couldn't come up with an alternative for the shell code above.
> > > If you have bash available (and I believe you do, otherwise
> > > configure would complain) then I think the best option is to move
> > > the documentation generation code out of the Makefile to an
> > > external bash script.
> >
> > That or fix the Makefile so that it uses bash as the interpreter.
> > As I said in my previous message, I believe that you can do that
> > by setting "SHELL = bash" in the Makefile.

Thanks for the hint Raphael, and sorry for not listening last time.

> So, the fix would be to revert the patch to use bash portability
>  layer here, and simply force the use of bash, I guess. If nobody
>  speaks against it, I'll do so tomorrow or so.

Yes, I agree.

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare
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