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[Xen-devel] Re: "portable" sh is not...

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 02:14:38PM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:

> > http://xenbits.xensource.com/staging/xen-unstable.hg?rev/08295dc13166
> >
> > broke our build. The script is not portable as claimed (e.g. traditional
> > Bourne shell has no $( ... ) construct).
> 
> The only one bash-specific thing I could find was the [:alpha:] notion.
> This changeset makes it work on BSD's /bin/sh.
> Looks like BSD's /bin/sh is not that traditional... :)
> 
> > Christoph, why is this necessary? Surely *BSD have /bin/bash
> 
> No, they have not. They have /bin/sh, /bin/ksh and /bin/csh.
> bash is a third-party package.

Can we make it use $SHELL? We have that set to bash.

regards
john

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