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On 23-12-2010 08:26:32 -0600, Perry Smith wrote: |
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> On Dec 23, 2010, at 8:10 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> > It should be IIRC, based on FEATURES=interactive. Anyway, if /bin/sh is |
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> > an issue on AIX, perhaps we better run their configure script with |
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> > Prefix'/bootstrap's bash instead? |
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> Seems like to get any type of wide spread stability between platforms and |
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> releases, you would want to use as few native elements as possible. So, |
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We try to do this as much as is reasonable. I think haubi backed up |
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most of that :) Prefix is indeed fully self-containing for this reason, |
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although on other platforms this may feel like a complete waste. |
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> using a bash that you have control over seems wise in the long term. The |
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> question is if this config script uses anything in ksh that isn't in bash. I would |
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> assume not since many /bin/sh's point to bash on other platforms (mac for |
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> example). |
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> The other thing is to be sure that the shell knows that it is running a script |
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> and is not interactive. If you passed bash the wrong flag, I bet it would |
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> make the same mistake and read input in raw mode so that the user could |
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> do command line editing (which you don't want in this case). |
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I'm not sure if I understand this well. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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