John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> writes:

> Since we use bash, I don't think it matters if we have constructs
> which don't work on the traditional bourne shell.

This is about building Guix though, which should work on any POSIX
system (approximately at least?) with the dependencies listed in the
README.

By the way it seems that wasn't the only issue in the test.  Here is a
better patch, this time tested on Debian with /bin/sh set to dash: