Martin Furter wrote: > > > On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Rainer Jung wrote: > >> On 22.11.2009 18:18, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: >>> 2009-11-22 18:06:40 Martin Furter napisał(a): >>>> >>>> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: >>>> >>>>> 2009-11-22 06:39:05 Martin Furter napisał(a): >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> 2009-11-22 03:43:44 Martin Furter napisał(a): >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Little bugfix... >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>>> Martin >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> [[[ >>>>>>>> Change the shebang line from /bin/sh to /bin/bash because the >>>>>>>> script >>>>>>>> contains bashims which do not work with /bin/sh on various UNICES. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This script doesn't have any bashisms. What exactly causes >>>>>>> problems? >>>>>> >>>>>> $(...) is a bashism >>>>> >>>>> No. $(command) is documented in POSIX: >>>>> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_06_03 >>>>> >>>> >>>> Fuck POSIX. >>>> >>>> $ /bin/sh -c 'echo $(date)' >>>> /bin/sh: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected >>>> $ uname -a >>>> SunOS enterprise 5.9 Generic_118558-22 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250 >>> >>> Please report a bug to developers of SunOS shell. >> >> Solaris contains a posix compatible shell as /usr/xpg4/bin/sh. It's >> mentioned in the sh man page and also in "man -s 5 standards". >> >> A common workaround is to set CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh before doing >> configure on Solaris. > > Good to know, thanks. > > But 1.4 compiled fine without any problems at all. So it's clearly a > regression and must be fixed in subversion. Still, running the script throught bash is not the righ solution, because you add a dependency on bash that wasn't there before. Whilst almost no-one will notice on Linux, lots of people will notice on solaris, which IIRC doesn't have bash installed by default.
Hint: do not use $(command), use `command` instead. The quoting rules are slightly different, but it's guaranteed to work on any flavour of Unix shell. -- Brane
