Re: Non-POSIX shells

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org> writes:
> What's the official word on non-POSIX shells and their relation to
> Makefiles and Autoconf scripts? Can't we simply require a POSIX shell? (we
> also require some external-to-GNOME libraries (the image loader libraries
> pop to my mind), so this wouldn't be earth-shattering)
> 
> I'm asking because of http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73381
> 

If we're going to require something funky it should be a reasonable
build tool instead of make/autoconf/libtool jury-rigging. ;-)

I don't think there's a reason to make Solaris users install bash,
it's easy to use `` instead of $().

Havoc