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

["Christoph Egger" <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 23 October 2007 13:54:43 John Levon wrote:
> This commit:
>
> 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.

Christoph

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