[OE-core] what shell programming constructs can we count on in .bbclass files?

[Patrick Ohly]

On Wed, 2017-03-15 at 11:05 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> Our shell parser *should* be POSIX compliant.  There are a few places
> where it isn't, but I believe those should be considered bugs.  At the
> end of the day the shell is actually executed by /bin/sh or /bin/bash
> anyway, so as long as bitbake can parse it you can use anything.

Unfortunately bitbake has problems parsing useful things like $( ). Are
there open bugs about that and/or is it worth filing enhancement
requests?



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