Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]

[David O'Brien]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 12:03:36AM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 
> > I'd really like this to state a POSIX compliant shell, and list the exact
> > POSIX spec (and year) that OS's must adhere to.
> 
> Not good enough.  The POSIX shell and make specifications were not
> written with the aim of making it possible to write portable shell
> scripts or makefiles.

The I would like to have the FreeBSD /bin/sh explicitly stated as a shell
that GCC must bootstrap using.  Bash'isms & Linux'isms should be kept out
of the bourne code.  I was hoping we could simply say "POSIX shell", but
if that won't do, then I'd like to see some shell implementations
explicitly listed as supported.

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)