From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0130C40EC32 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2012 05:20:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -4.999 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.999 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI=-5, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY=0.001] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6-xEJTBh-dZf for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2012 05:20:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 95B5140EC31 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2012 05:20:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q39CK4FE000413 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2012 12:20:05 GMT Received: from acsmt357.oracle.com (acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q39CK2Zw008412 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2012 12:20:04 GMT Received: from abhmt119.oracle.com (abhmt119.oracle.com [141.146.116.71]) by acsmt357.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q39CK2Oc003075 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2012 07:20:02 -0500 Received: from pub.czech.sun.com (/10.163.20.32) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 09 Apr 2012 05:20:02 -0700 Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 14:19:30 +0200 From: Vladimir Marek To: Notmuch Mail Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Make configure use /bin/bash instead of /bin/sh Message-ID: <20120409121930.GA10554@pub.czech.sun.com> Mail-Followup-To: Notmuch Mail References: <1333966665-10469-1-git-send-email-Vladimir.Marek@oracle.com> <1333966665-10469-2-git-send-email-Vladimir.Marek@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090206.4F82D3F5.0056,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:20:06 -0000 > > Posix /bin/sh is not capable of running this configure and fails. > > What fails? What would it take to make this work on posix sh instead? > > The tests do require bash, but generally I think it would be preferable to > not depend on bash to build. Well I gave it a quick stab. This is not posix: BLAH=$( ... ) BLAH=$(( ... )) ${option%=*} ${option%%=*} ${option#=*} ${option##=*} First two cases are easy to replace by `...` resp `expr ...`. The rest leads to external utility like sed. The dirtiest part of configure is parsing the commandline arguments, but that could be replaced by /usr/bin/getopts. If it is appealing way of doing that, I can rework my patch and submit it for consideration. Thank you -- Vlad