On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 12:56:20PM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: > Sam Ravnborg @ Fri, May 02, 2008 at 08:08:13AM +0200: > > On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 02:48:58AM +0100, Oleg Verych wrote: > > > Sam, please, tell to those guys, that shell must be `bash`, as Roman wanted. > > > > No - we want to be portable across as many setups as possible. > > So forcing us to use bash is in the long run not a good solutions. > > > > We should go for the least common denominator - busy-box could be the one. > > ,-- Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702082335150.14457@xxxxxxxxxx> -- > |It would make casual kbuild hacking only even more difficult, as one has > |to check it works with the various shells. > `-- This is still true. But we start to see a few more people reporting issues with non-standard Linux systems (busy-box, cygwin, sun) so there is a need and there is a tester base. And any strightforward looking patches will be applied - when eventual feedback has been incorporated. I will not promise to check for non-linux compliance but testers are welcome. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
