[darcs-users] darcs patch: fixes to autoconf

[David Roundy]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Pekka Pessi <ppessi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I believe /bin/env bash is supposed to work portably.

David