Hi Björn, *,

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Bjoern Michaelsen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Christian Lohmaier <cloph <at> openoffice.org> writes:
>> dropping tcsh support means: changing configure's default to bash and
>> issue a warning (or error) when tcsh is selected.
>
> I really hope for that in the long run we can make our build system depend 
> only
> on a IEEE POSIX specification (IEEE Standard 1003.1) compatible shell.

Oh, that didn't meant to support / endorse bashism - but rather to drop tcsh :-)

Too bad that you wrote IEEE 1003.1, since if it was 1003.2, then one
could set POSIXLY_CORRECT variable to switch bash to posix mode and
test with that.

Or is there no difference wrt shell behaviour?

ciao
Christian

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