On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 01:19 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 02-11-2007 17:35:08 +0000, Roy Marples wrote: > > I don't see them as inferior. > > I see them as more portable and less confusing. > > Please stop calling it "more portable". The shell code you see in > configure can in a way be called "portable". Your POSIX compliant stuff > isn't. In fact, by stating #!/bin/sh you actually make the code useless > on a number of platforms, where it would have been working fine if there > just were #!/bin/bash there. > > It seems to me that you actually mean "more FreeBSD-able" or something, > which is a high price to pay for a relatively small part of Gentoo as a > whole.
Me again. If the shell isn't infact POSIX then you could always patch everything to change #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash and install bash or remove /bin/sh and link it to bash. As a lot of programs out there in the tree that are runtime (not ebuilds or init scripts) depend on /bin/sh being a POSIX shell. Thanks Roy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
