On 03/26/2010 09:59 PM, Jim Michaels wrote: > configure is a BASH script. Am I not correct in stating that BASH requires > BASH to install?
No. Bash requires a quasi-POSIX-conformant shell to be built, but can be installed without the use of such a shell. Your complaint that bash cannot be bootstrapped on windows is not true. You can build it on another machine, using a cross-compiler, then copy the resulting executable over. And since bash is not the only shell that has been ported to windows, you could start your bash-on-windows build by installing another ported shell instead of bash. > > windows does not come with any such sh shell. and I need to be able to build > one from scratch. You can obtain bash pre-built for windows by going to cygwin.com. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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