Re: [PATCH] configure: replace bashisms with POSIX shell

[Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>]

> so basically, if it works with bash, and latest vanilla
> binutils/glibc/gcc, the change probably won't be considered ?

More or less.  In cases where there is nothing inferior about doing it a
way that works with other shells et al, we'd make an exception (like for
$((...)) vs $[...]).  The trunk does not get cluttered up with uglification
for building on older systems.  The portable branch does.

> seems crazy they're not merged when even fedora applies it.  but i guess
> if you can't get it in, then there's not much point in pushing the topic
> further.

Fedora does not apply the portability patch.

> in terms of releases, could we get the patches renamed+compressed ?
> https://fedorahosted.org/releases/e/l/elfutils/0.152/
> 	elfutils-portability.patch -> elfutils-0.152-portability.patch.bz2
> 	elfutils-robustify.patch -> elfutils-0.152-robustify.patch.bz2
> unversioned files are a pain to mirror, and ASCII files like to get mangled 
> (newlines) by some servers.  and they'd be much smaller :).

We could do that for future releases.  Be sure to remind me whenever we
start considering making the 0.153 release (it will be discussed on this list).


Thanks,
Roland