[PATCH] gen_build_files.sh: Remove bashisms

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Sat May 15 02:56:25 UTC 2010


On Friday 14 May 2010 15:57:34 Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> On Fri, 14 May 2010, Peter Tyser wrote:
> > I also personally prefer explicitly specifying a variable for 'read'
> > instead of using the "magical" REPLY variable.
>
> Yes.  Horrid obfuscation.

By the way, if you were making the argument "this should work under busybox's 
own shells", I'd be all for it.  You could even make a standards argment 
around SUSv4.

But making the argument "this should comply with Ubuntu's design mistakes", 
such as replacing the gcc binary with a perl wrapper (yes really, check Ubuntu 
8.10)...  That's not a compelling argument for an embedded toolset.

> Cheers,

Rob
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