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

[Koen Kooi]

On 30-07-09 17:01, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> 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.

Gtk people abusing libtool to be more precise :)