On 12/17/2011 10:22 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> libtool: minimise forks per invocation under bash.
>
> * build-aux/general.m4sh (lt_HAVE_PLUSEQ_OP, lt_HAVE_ARITH_OP)
> (lt_HAVE_XSI_OPS): Set these without forking a test script when
> running under bash, to avoid a few unnecess
On 12/18/2011 12:46 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> Pushed as obvious.
>
> Dash shipped with Ubutu-11.10 as /bin/sh, among others, still
> has a crippled echo builtin that mis-handles backslashes.
That's an unfair characterization. Rather, dash ships an echo builtin
that complies with POSIX by defa
On 12/18/2011 06:33 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>>> Can anyone think of something better than just removing the whole
>>> lt_HAVE_PLUSEQ_OP
>>> clause from the patch quoted above, and letting the shell figure it by
>>> itself later
>>> on?
>> Adding an extra eval seems to do the trick:
Yes - hidi
On 12/18/2011 06:49 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> * build-aub/general.m4sh (lt_HAVE_PLUSEQ_OP): Instead of using
> $((..)) arithmetic, which causes an error on dash, use a case
> based bash version check.
Dash understands $(( )). What it doesn't understand is ${BASH_VERSINFO[0]}.
Solaris /bin/sh
Hi Eric.
On 12/19/2011 02:44 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 12/17/2011 10:22 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
We should try to minimise forks, especially on Windows where they are
+# unreasonably slow, so skip the feature probes when bash is being used:
+if test set = "${BASH_VERSION+set}"; then
+: ${
