On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 10:46 AM Stefano Babic <sba...@denx.de> wrote: > > This is still broken and the proposed patch does fix it. We should get > > this merged for 2019.04 release. > > > > Please Stefano, consider this for release (be it through your branch > > for directly by Tom). > > > > The thing is in which conditions this is broken and why it should be > fixed here and in this way. Yes, I admit, I have not pondered this as a > big issue - it could be also fixed replacing dash with bash on > Debian-like distros, and I guess also on not-debian. And I am quite sure > we cannot ensure compatibility with all possible shell that a customer > will try , from csh to some exotic variant. Why is this so important to > be rapidely fixed here ?
The dash uses POSIX syntax and it failing on this is a bad signal. Asking people to change the default system shell to build U-Boot is no sense. We cannot ensure compatibility, for sure, but using bashism makes it worse and non POSIX compatible. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
