On 21.02.2012 16:59, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
On 02/21/12 10:15, Herbert Duerr wrote:
No objection to your plan but in general I do dislike the excessive
dependence we have on bash. Perhaps you can clean the bash
script too? It doesn't look too bad:
[...]
Aliases were absent from theBourne shell
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_shell>, which had the more powerful
facility of functions. The alias concept was imported intoBourne Again
Shell <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_%28Unix_shell%29>(bash) and
theKorn shell <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korn_shell>(ksh).
So I think we cannot count on having alias for older bin/sh.
Ah yes, thanks. Reworking the build process to work on all shells is a
goal I don't want to attack though; doing that may be an idea for
volunteers who enjoy getting intimate knowledge of the challenges and
problems of the build process in a huge multi-platform project.
I'd just like to get rid of the script that gets built for *csh out of
the way, as it is in the source root and being named similar to its
counterpart leads to confusion IMHO.
Herbert
