[oe] Commit 2e0fa4918d643ce6ec0299cd31cfe1c346e4bce3 breaks libtool's do_configure [PATCH]

[Philip Balister]

Marc Olzheim wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 03:22:19PM +0200, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
>>> My /bin/sh is a dash, I should have known, my apologies.  I have a patch
>>>
>> Testing with dash rather than bash is GOOD due to it adhering to POSIX
>> without much of the bash-specifics.
> 
> Well, I agree, but judging by commit
> e0ed375a8dfb292bdd72f5891917ef81f361f15c to classes/sanity.bbclass, I
> assumed the policy was to require /bin/bash for /bin/sh instead of
> fixing bashisms.
> 
> To not be obligated to use bash, I added the attached patch.
> 
>> So please do not introduce 'bashisms'  (dependencies on bash behaviour).
> 
> I agree ;-)

No sense us creating bash only scripts, but some of the scripts used to 
build things in OE (created by others) may have bashism's. Easier for us 
to use bash than patch other people's scripts.

Philip
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