Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]

[Zack Weinberg]

"David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> 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.

I'd be fine with that.

zw