[Buildroot] 2016.11-rc2 with really old versions of bash (RHEL5)

[Yann E. MORIN]

Arnout, All,

On 2016-11-19 10:05 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 19-11-16 09:39, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > But oh well... We still need to know whether we still consider RHEL5 as
> > our oldest (unoffocially) supported platform, or if we just bite the
> > bullet and require bash-4.
> 
>  ThomasDS asked if it would be possible to support RHEL5 if you don't use
> BR2_EXTERNAL. Do you think that's feasible?

No.

Well, all is possible. But the cost would be too high, IMHO...

I have a patch locally that fakes asociative arrays usingeval as you
suggested. I'm testing it right now (it still works fien with bash-4,
at least! :-)). If it works with bash-3.1, I'll send it.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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