On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Pekka Pessi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/5/16 David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > Thu May 15 18:09:32 EEST 2008 Pekka Pessi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > * Zapped bash-ism from configure.ac. >> >> What do you think of just switching to bash for configure? This particular >> change seems unproblematic, but requiring bash to compile darcs doesn't >> seem *too* onerous, and might make it easier to ensure a portable configure >> script. > > Build already depends on perl and other non-standard goodies. In that > sense, requiring bash is not a big deal, especially if it makes it > easier to run test scripts. Problem with bash is that its path is not > standard like /bin/sh, even if its installed, it might be found from > /usr/local/bin or somewhere else.
I believe /bin/env bash is supposed to work portably. David _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
