From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] POSIX shell and "portable"
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 21:55:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071105205541.GL29467@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1194294729.2906.17.camel@uberpc.marples.name>
On 05-11-2007 20:32:09 +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> > > > More (generic) unix-able.
> > >
> > > Exactly so :)
> >
> > Not really as long as not being bourne shell compatible like autoconf's
> > configure. I won't trust to have a POSIX shell like /bin/ksh everywhere,
> > but /bin/sh only, which usually is just a bourne shell on "unix".
>
> As I said above, portage could change this.
> Think of it as an #ifdef :)
We already (have to) do this, and it is not as trivial as you think.
Though, as Mike pointed out, we sort of all agree that scripts outside
of portage should be POSIX sh.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-05 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-02 13:44 [gentoo-dev] More general interface to use flags Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2007-11-02 14:04 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-02 14:27 ` Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2007-11-02 14:52 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-02 14:59 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-11-02 15:30 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-02 15:38 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-11-02 15:48 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-02 15:58 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-11-02 16:10 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-02 16:30 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-11-02 16:52 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-02 17:17 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-11-02 17:35 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-03 0:19 ` [gentoo-dev] POSIX shell and "portable" Fabian Groffen
2007-11-03 0:47 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-05 9:22 ` Michael Haubenwallner
2007-11-05 10:13 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-05 13:21 ` Michael Haubenwallner
2007-11-05 20:21 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-11-05 23:18 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-06 7:12 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-11-06 7:40 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-06 8:03 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-11-06 8:25 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-06 9:04 ` Michael Haubenwallner
2007-11-05 20:32 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-05 20:55 ` Fabian Groffen [this message]
2007-11-05 22:27 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-11-03 0:57 ` Natanael copa
2007-11-03 1:06 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-03 16:19 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-11-03 1:10 ` [gentoo-dev] " Roy Marples
[not found] ` <b41005390711022225i4f30bb01jbf5a040c60c4b088@mail.gmail.com>
2007-11-03 5:26 ` Fwd: [gentoo-dev] More general interface to use flags Alec Warner
2007-11-03 21:57 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-11-04 10:54 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-11-04 21:54 ` Alec Warner
2007-11-06 11:50 ` Steve Long
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