Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:49:03 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru>, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scripting languages (was: Re: Package system flaws?) Message-ID: <3D3F2EDF.8106FFEC@mindspring.com> References: <200207231706.g6NH6XOV076926@dotar.thuvia.org> <200207231745.g6NHjfZ47049@green.bikeshed.org> <20020723191638.GA53463@over-yonder.net> <20020724121335.A42303@regency.nsu.ru> <20020724134228.GA4475@gits.dyndns.org>
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Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 12:13:35PM +0700, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > Wait, doesn't Linux (all of them) just have sh -> bash ? > > the reason why many GNU/Litnux `sh' scripts aren't portable at all. > unfortunately, I have no good example in my mind right now, sorry. There are a number of packages which have "bash" dependencies because the output of autconf can't use sh to run because the configure.in was written to output bash-isms. Specifically, reinterpretation of variables containing variable names. Please see my use of "eval" in the set of scripts I posted to -current to allow local configuration specification for things like auto-deletion of perl and other yes/no options that change semantics from one version of FreeBSD to another (part of the "how do I automatically get `make installworld' to get rid of old headers/perl/whatever" discussion). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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