From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:12:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] documentation: Makefile accounts for SHELL_PATH setting
Message-ID: <20090323141238.GA14722@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090323140302.GA11005@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:03:02AM -0400, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 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.

Neither does it on solaris 10. Fortunately, there is /usr/xpg4/bin/sh.

Mike