Re: [dev] Re: Dropping tcsh support for Mac (all?) / changing configure's default

[Christian Lohmaier]

Hi Björn, *,

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Bjoern Michaelsen
bjoern.michael...@sun.com wrote:
 Christian Lohmaier cloph at openoffice.org writes:
 dropping tcsh support means: changing configure's default to bash and
 issue a warning (or error) when tcsh is selected.

 I really hope for that in the long run we can make our build system depend 
 only
 on a IEEE POSIX specification (IEEE Standard 1003.1) compatible shell.

Oh, that didn't meant to support / endorse bashism - but rather to drop tcsh :-)

Too bad that you wrote IEEE 1003.1, since if it was 1003.2, then one
could set POSIXLY_CORRECT variable to switch bash to posix mode and
test with that.

Or is there no difference wrt shell behaviour?

ciao
Christian

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[dev] Re: Dropping tcsh support for Mac (all?) / changing configure's default

[Bjoern Michaelsen]

Christian Lohmaier cloph at openoffice.org writes:

 Too bad that you wrote IEEE 1003.1, since if it was 1003.2, then one
 could set POSIXLY_CORRECT variable to switch bash to posix mode and
 test with that.
 Or is there no difference wrt shell behaviour?

I am not a posix standards expert at all, but AFAIK 1003.2 is part of the newest
revision of 1003.1 (as confusing as that might sound).
see http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html Question 10.

BR,

Bjoern


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