Re: [gentoo-user] Per package /bin/sh selection

[Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>]

Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Thanks, this will be a PITA for a while (again). Another developer had
> patched /bin/dash so that it was effectively broken, to the point where
> ./configure scripts would decide on their own use bash instead (even if
> you set /bin/sh to point to dash). This "fixed" the errors, but meant

Are there no unit tests for dash?

When ever I change something in bosh, I run the unit tests to verify that I did 
not introduce a bug. One of the unit tests is to run a configure and compare 
the results with the results frm a reference shell.

BTW: Did you ever think about replacing dash by bosh?

Bosh has the advantage to support multi byte characters.

Jörg

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