Re: [Xen-devel] getting etherboot compiling

[John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:52:56PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:

> Christoph Egger writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] getting etherboot compiling"):
> > This is not ok for *BSD. bash is a third-party package there.
> 
> I think this is OK in a tool needed for building, surely ?  After all
> you need GCC to build Xen and that's a third-party package in *BSD
> too.
> 
> However, it's a very simple script and I can't see anything in it
> which ought not to work (ie, I think it uses only features in SuSv3).
> What is the problem that means Solaris /bin/sh doesn't work ?

It's the variable substitution command, not understand by the 'real'
Bourne shell

regards
john

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