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Re: rfc: new libgcc build mechanism
- To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: rfc: new libgcc build mechanism
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 13:14:47 -0600
- cc: msokolov at ivan dot Harhan dot ORG (Michael Sokolov), gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, autoconf at gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <oraei1kyrx.fsf@zecarneiro.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>you write:
> On May 8, 2000, msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG (Michael Sokolov) wrote:
>
> > Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@cygnus.com> wrote:
> >> It is currently believed that every system has at least *some*
> >> shell implementation that supports functions [...]
>
> > 4.3BSD doesn't!
>
> Is /bin/sh the only Bourne shell-like shell available on the system?
> No /bin/ksh, /bin/sh5 or some other extended shell that supports shell
> functions? If that's true, you've just solved one of the
> long-standing doubts the new autoconf maintainers have had for quite
> some time.
You can't depend on ksh or sh5 being available on 4.3BSD boxes and the
4.3BSD shell certainly does not support shell functions.
jeff