[arch-general] A good time to switch to dash as /bin/sh?

lolilolicon lolilolicon at gmail.com
Fri Sep 26 12:50:06 UTC 2014


On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Drake Wilson <drake at dasyatidae.net> wrote:
> Aside: I'm not sure about the interpretation of checkbashisms re autotools
> scripts (in particular libtool) because they do an awful lot of weird code
> generation and shuffling to deal with multiple bogus shell implementations.

Yes, you'd expect that they knew better. I haven't looked into it
thoroughly, but libtool does seem to require bash -- but it may depend
on the build process.


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