[darcs-users] darcs patch: fixes to autoconf

[Pekka Pessi]

2008/5/16 David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net>:
>  > Thu May 15 18:09:32 EEST 2008  Pekka Pessi <pekka.pessi at nokia.com>
>  >   * Zapped bash-ism from configure.ac.
>
>  What do you think of just switching to bash for configure? This particular
>  change seems unproblematic, but requiring bash to compile darcs doesn't
>  seem *too* onerous, and might make it easier to ensure a portable configure
>  script.

Build already depends on perl and other non-standard goodies. In that
sense, requiring bash is not a big deal, especially if it makes it
easier to run test scripts. Problem with bash is that its path is not
standard like /bin/sh, even if its installed, it might be found from
/usr/local/bin or somewhere else.

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