Hello Jim, * Jim Meyering wrote on Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 09:44:31AM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Just FYI: this bootstrap script will not work any more with some shells > > that are still in practical use. > > Thanks for the quick review and the heads up. > However, do you really think we should obfuscate (even a little) to > cater to such old systems when it comes to _development_ tools?
No, I just thought I'd mention this, as I assumed it unobvious. Whether you ignore it, adhere to ancient /bin/sh limitations, or add a note to README-cvs, is up to you. :-) > People with a limited build environment can always build from a > released tarball. Sure. From my own experience, I can only say that making Libtool bootstrap almost everywhere I test it has been advantageous to testing it _for me_: unless the machine is vastly slower than current ones, a change and a bunch of scp's on another machine make for a slower developer cycle than just working on the test machine. (And on the really slow machines, I'd go and edit `configure' right away anyway...) But YMMV, and in the above case certainly a `BIN_SH=xpg4 ./bootstrap' can be expected from the typical coreutils hacker. ;-) Cheers, Ralf
