On 6 Jul 2007, Mike Frysinger spake thusly: > On Friday 06 July 2007, Nix wrote: >> On 5 Jul 2007, Bernhard Walle stated: >> > While cmake itself isn't the problem, >> > often, it also depends on the version of cmake that is installed. The >> > good idea about auto* tools is the idea that you don't need to install >> > any tools to build, just to develop. A POSIX shell and Perl should be >> > installed everywhere ... >> >> You don't need Perl to run configure scripts, either, and it's only >> recently that it started requiring a POSIX shell rather than something >> of the calibre of Solaris's /bin/sh. > > since when does autotools require a POSIX shell ? autoconf 2.55's NEWS said: ,---- | - shell functions | | Shell functions will gradually be introduced, probably starting with | Autotest. If you know machines which are in use that you suspect | *not* to support shell functions, please run the test suite of | Autoconf 2.55 on it, and report the results to | bug-autoconf@xxxxxxxx `---- but actually I'm not sure if this was ever done. That's not actually `a POSIX shell' I suppose, but it's also not going to work on prehistoric shells like Solaris's 1980-vintage /bin/sh. -- `... in the sense that dragons logically follow evolution so they would be able to wield metal.' --- Kenneth Eng's colourless green ideas sleep furiously - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
