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

Graeme Gregory dp at xora.org.uk
Thu Jul 30 15:01:01 UTC 2009


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.
>
>   
OE is always supposed to run on dash, unfortuneately a lot of the stuff 
it builds is written by people less caring. I beleive that commit was 
spurred by a libtool failure on dash.

Graeme





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