On 16 March 2012 12:24, Andreas Färber <andreas.faer...@web.de> wrote:
> Am 16.03.2012 13:15, schrieb Peter Maydell:
>> This shouldn't be necessary -- tracetool has a #!/bin/sh at the top.
>> If it needs bash then that should be fixed.
>
> No, please. I'd be okay with setting shell="bash" in a reasonably
> limited environment (say, Solaris 11) but not with requiring bash for
> all platforms.

I meant, we should fix tracetool so that it really is a POSIX
conformant shell script, since that's what it claims to require.

> The issue here is really just getting a fully POSIX-conformant shell.
> And the way I expect this to work is by executing configure and make in
> such a shell and by not having hardcoded /bin/sh creep in through some
> shebang line.

The way I expect this to work is that /bin/sh should be a posix shell...

-- PMM

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