Re: Non-POSIX shells

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

ERDI Gergo wrote:

> 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
The whole idea of autoconf is to work with the bugs in the user's shell. 
There is a section of the autoconf manual that you can use as a 
reference when working on autoconf scripts.  Select "Portable Shell" 
from the main menu in its info file.  The Shell Substitutions node has a 
lot of information on problems with common shells (it says the $() 
syntax will fail with Solaris's default shell, and IRIX 6.5's one).

James.

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