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On Tuesday 23 October 2007 13:54:43 John Levon wrote: > This commit: > > http://xenbits.xensource.com/staging/xen-unstable.hg?rev/08295dc13166 > > broke our build. The script is not portable as claimed (e.g. traditional > Bourne shell has no $( ... ) construct). The only one bash-specific thing I could find was the [:alpha:] notion. This changeset makes it work on BSD's /bin/sh. Looks like BSD's /bin/sh is not that traditional... :) > Christoph, why is this necessary? Surely *BSD have /bin/bash No, they have not. They have /bin/sh, /bin/ksh and /bin/csh. bash is a third-party package. Christoph -- AMD Saxony, Dresden, Germany Operating System Research Center Legal Information: AMD Saxony Limited Liability Company & Co. KG Sitz (Geschäftsanschrift): Wilschdorfer Landstr. 101, 01109 Dresden, Deutschland Registergericht Dresden: HRA 4896 vertretungsberechtigter Komplementär: AMD Saxony LLC (Sitz Wilmington, Delaware, USA) Geschäftsführer der AMD Saxony LLC: Dr. Hans-R. Deppe, Thomas McCoy _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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