Hi Ed, * Ed Hartnett wrote on Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 05:54:04PM CET: > > If I use libtool, I seem to get bash scripts. Does this mean my users > must have bash installed?
Nope. The configure script will look for a decent shell which supports shell functions and a hopefully builtin equivalent for 'echo' which does not interpret backslashes. When it finds bash, it's usually happy, but it should do fine with most non-ancient and even some ancient Bourne-derived shells, such as the various ksh, ash, etc. Native Bourne shells won't work (as they do not have shell functions), so on a, say, 10+ year old host you might have to install a modern shell. Last time I tried the UNICOS 9 /bin/sh, it even seemed to work fine with Libtool CVS HEAD, but boy was it slow. ;-) Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
