From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Io7VY-0002qP-3b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:09:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id lA318G5i008021; Sat, 3 Nov 2007 01:08:16 GMT Received: from mail.marples.name (rsm.demon.co.uk [80.177.111.50]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lA316OkG005776 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2007 01:06:25 GMT Received: from [10.73.1.30] (uberpc.marples.name [10.73.1.30]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.marples.name (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D791900FF for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2007 01:06:24 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] POSIX shell and "portable" From: Roy Marples To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20071103001922.GD1907@gentoo.org> References: <472B29B9.50002@gentoo.org> <200711021730.21089.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> <1194022333.3029.3.camel@uberpc.marples.name> <200711021817.32146.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> <1194024908.3029.6.camel@uberpc.marples.name> <20071103001922.GD1907@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:06:06 +0000 Message-Id: <1194051966.16405.16.camel@uberpc.marples.name> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 84059f1d-6382-44fd-be36-ea7f509389d5 X-Archives-Hash: 436cb7f27130b7dd84dc97f56e9bff24 On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 01:19 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote: > Please stop calling it "more portable". The shell code you see in > configure can in a way be called "portable". Your POSIX compliant stuff > isn't. In fact, by stating #!/bin/sh you actually make the code useless > on a number of platforms, where it would have been working fine if there > just were #!/bin/bash there. > > It seems to me that you actually mean "more FreeBSD-able" or something, > which is a high price to pay for a relatively small part of Gentoo as a > whole. Another way of looking at it is that you're forcing specific tools on people, where I am asking people to use standard POSIX tools. I guess it's because I'm an Engineer and you probably aren't. If the tool isn't up to the job, then fix the tool. If the tool doesn't claim any standards compliance then feel free to change it. Thanks Roy -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list