Re: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#806331: [xz-devel] Re: xz-utils: make the selected POSIX shell stable accross build environments

2016-06-15 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Ximin Luo dixit: >needs to more clearly distinguish between the build and the host >environment - like how compilers do. So for example, here the "most >correct" solution would be to add a HOST_POSIX_SHELL and default this No, this is outside of the scope of autotools and a common misuse of them

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#806331: [xz-devel] Re: xz-utils: make the selected POSIX shell stable accross build environments

2016-06-15 Thread Ximin Luo
Paul Eggert: > On 06/15/2016 01:44 PM, Ximin Luo wrote: >> In such a case, it is a bug to be using $POSIX_SHELL - which only tests for >> conformance with POSIX and not these "other bugs that make it unusable". > Gnulib can't test for all POSIX violations, only for the ones it knows about. >