On 31 July 2010 20:50, Raphael Geissert <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday 31 July 2010 15:43:12 Reuben Thomas wrote: >> I was just wondering why you can't do the following in the short term: >> >> 1. Fix autoconf (all five versions in Debian) to default to using bash >> and only fall back to sh if there is no bash and sh seems to be OK. >> >> 2. Regenerate the affected packages and rebuild, adding bash as a build-dep > > It's easier to make people fix their bogus code. It is not portable (partially > defeating autoconf's purpose and carefully-written code.)
That's nice in theory, but in practice you're not just dealing with autoconf code, you're dealing with all sorts of 3rd party autoconf macros which, with the best will in the world, are unlikely all ever to be fixed upstream, for as long as developers continue to use systems with bash as /bin/sh. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
