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
Paul Eggert dixit:
> CONFIG_SHELL lets the user override Gnulib's guess in environments where the
> guess is wrong. This sort of thing has been in Gnulib (and Autoconf) for ages,
> I expect many people have grown used to it, and I'm leery of changing this
> just
> for the purpose of reproducible
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
Ximin Luo dixit:
>(Did you mean to add debian-bugs-dist and Jonathan Nieder on purpose
>or by accident? I removed them, but feel free to add them back in.)
I didn’t, maybe debbugs did.
>In other words: in your scenario, one would not use $POSIX_SHELL but
>some other specific test for those "othe
Paul Eggert:
> On 06/15/2016 01:44 PM, Ximin Luo wrote:
>> In such a case, it is a bug to be using $POSIX_SHELL - which only tests for
>> conformance with POSIX and not these "other bugs that make it unusable".
> Gnulib can't test for all POSIX violations, only for the ones it knows about.
> CONF
(Did you mean to add debian-bugs-dist and Jonathan Nieder on purpose or by
accident? I removed them, but feel free to add them back in.)
Thorsten Glaser:
>> proposed patch affect your scenario? This is not about CONFIG_SHELL,
>
> It is. Straight from your diff:
>
>> for gl_cv_posix_shell i
Ximin Luo dixit:
>I'm not sure if you understood what was being discussed.
I understand it extremely well.
>proposed patch affect your scenario? This is not about CONFIG_SHELL,
It is. Straight from your diff:
> for gl_cv_posix_shell in \
>-"$CONFIG_SHELL" "$SHELL" /bin/sh /bin/bas
Thorsten Glaser:
> Ximin Luo dixit:
>
>> bugs-gnulib, do you see any issue with this patch? The context is that
>
> [..]
>
> $CONFIG_SHELL should stay the ultimate instance. Users absolutely MUST
> be able to override not-working-but-recognised-as-good-enough system
> shells like /bin/sh with th
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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