Ximin Luo:
> Lasse Collin:
>> posix-shell.m4 comes from gnulib
>>
>> [..]
>>
>> One can force the POSIX shell to a specific value on the configure
>> command line by passing, for example, "gl_cv_posix_shell=/bin/sh" as an
>> argument. It's not documented in the --help output but it's mentioned
>> i
Lasse Collin:
> posix-shell.m4 comes from gnulib
>
> [..]
>
> One can force the POSIX shell to a specific value on the configure
> command line by passing, for example, "gl_cv_posix_shell=/bin/sh" as an
> argument. It's not documented in the --help output but it's mentioned
> in INSTALL section 3
Thorsten Glaser:
> Ximin Luo dixit:
>
>> needs to more clearly distinguish between the build and the host
>> environment - like how compilers do. So for example, here the "most
>> correct" solution would be to add a HOST_POSIX_SHELL and default this
>
> No, this is outside of the scope of autotoo
Ximin Luo dixit:
>needs to more clearly distinguish between the build and the host
>environment - like how compilers do. So for example, here the "most
>correct" solution would be to add a HOST_POSIX_SHELL and default this
No, this is outside of the scope of autotools and a common misuse
of them
Paul Eggert:
> On 06/15/2016 01:44 PM, Ximin Luo wrote:
>> In such a case, it is a bug to be using $POSIX_SHELL - which only tests for
>> conformance with POSIX and not these "other bugs that make it unusable".
> Gnulib can't test for all POSIX violations, only for the ones it knows about.
> CONF
Ximin Luo dixit:
>bugs-gnulib, do you see any issue with this patch? The context is that
I’m not bugs-gnulib, but I’ve ported many a code using autotools to new
platforms (MirBSD, MidnightBSD, Interix, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD), and also
hacked autotools some. For added credibility, I’m the developer
+bugs-gnulib, reproducible-builds
Lasse Collin:
> On 2016-06-07 Ximin Luo wrote:
>> I've attached a patch that makes m4/posix-shell.m4 try constant paths
>> first. This should fix the issue.
>>
>> Upstream should also apply it - see more-stable-shell.patch.
>
> Thanks!
>
> posix-shell.m4 comes f
On 2016-06-07 Ximin Luo wrote:
> I've attached a patch that makes m4/posix-shell.m4 try constant paths
> first. This should fix the issue.
>
> Upstream should also apply it - see more-stable-shell.patch.
Thanks!
posix-shell.m4 comes from gnulib so it would be nice if you could send
the patch the
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