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On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 01:19 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> Please stop calling it "more portable". The shell code you see in |
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> configure can in a way be called "portable". Your POSIX compliant stuff |
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> isn't. In fact, by stating #!/bin/sh you actually make the code useless |
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> on a number of platforms, where it would have been working fine if there |
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> just were #!/bin/bash there. |
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> It seems to me that you actually mean "more FreeBSD-able" or something, |
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> which is a high price to pay for a relatively small part of Gentoo as a |
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> whole. |
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Another way of looking at it is that you're forcing specific tools on |
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people, where I am asking people to use standard POSIX tools. |
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I guess it's because I'm an Engineer and you probably aren't. If the |
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tool isn't up to the job, then fix the tool. If the tool doesn't claim |
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any standards compliance then feel free to change it. |
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Thanks |
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Roy |
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