From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:03:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] documentation: Makefile accounts for SHELL_PATH setting
Message-ID: <20090323140302.GA11005@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1237812904-sup-3864@ntdws12.chass.utoronto.ca>

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 08:57:27AM -0400, Ben Walton wrote:

> That's a fair point.  I've been lugging this around for a bit in the
> build tree I use, so I don't recall specifically what was breaking.
> The sh in question is the one found in solaris 8.  When I get a few
> mintues, I'll build without the patch to see what the problem was...

I wouldn't worry about it. The /bin/sh on Solaris 8 is pretty hopelessly
broken for our use. At the very least it doesn't understand $()
subsititution.

-Peff