Re: [gentoo-dev] POSIX shell and "portable"

[Roy Marples]

On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 01:19 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 02-11-2007 17:35:08 +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> > I don't see them as inferior.
> > I see them as more portable and less confusing.
>
> 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.

Me again.

If the shell isn't infact POSIX then you could always patch everything
to change #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash and install bash or remove /bin/sh
and link it to bash.

As a lot of programs out there in the tree that are runtime (not ebuilds
or init scripts) depend on /bin/sh being a POSIX shell.

Thanks

Roy

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