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".

But is it more portable as then then works across more than one shell.

>   The shell code you see in
> configure can in a way be called "portable".  Your POSIX compliant stuff
> isn't.

Sure it is - it should work on a shell that claims POSIX compliance.

>   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.

Then the issue is to fix their sh so it follows POSIX compliance.
As soon as a dash, bb or FreeBSD sh issue is found where it deviates
from POSIX but it works on bash a lot of people say "dash bug, therefore
invalid

> 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.

More embeddable.
More BSDable.
More Linuxable - bash isn't the only linux shell, there are plently of
others.

Thanks

Roy

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