On 02/22/12 12:41, Kay Schenk wrote:
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Herbert Duerr<[email protected]> wrote:
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<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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_%28Unix_shell%29>>(bash)
and
theKorn
shell<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Korn_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.
as an FYI...looking at the man page for "sh" on people.apache.org (FreeBSD)
indicates "alias" IS supported in "sh". I don't know what the internal
"version" is of sh on this system. Not do I know WHEN support for "alias"
was added to "sh'.
We do have a pretty capable maintainer for FreeBSD's shell. I am thinking
more of the /bin/sh as comes preinstalled on Solaris and other (probably
extint?) unices around.
FWIW, with the help of the "checkbashims" script I did a cleanup of all
the other scripts that depended on "bin/bash" in OpenOffice but still it
seems something was missed in fetch-tarballs.sh and I had to move it
back to bash for Solaris sparc.
In response to your original question, Herbert...yeah, maybe a good time to
get rid of
*csh dependencies...I think all *nix systems, regardless of variant, ship
with "sh" or point it to something reasonable.
tcsh is pretty well maintained still. The author is a well respected
developer in NetBSD.
Pedro.
