ct-nt + bash detection

[Yann E. MORIN]

Hello Enrico!
Hello All!

On Friday 14 September 2007 14:11, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> I've just grabbed the current trunk and discovered an problem
> with the bash version detection: (./configure:127)
> For some strange reason, my bash (@Gentoo) reports some uncommon (?)
> version, which ct-ng couldn't handle:
>     GNU bash, version 3.2.17(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)

Mine (Debian testing) reports:
  GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

> I replaced the line to:
>     bash_version=`/bin/bash --version |head -n 1 |cut -d ' ' -f 4|sed -e "s/\..*//g;"`

Arrgh! This is because Gentoo has /bin/sh aliased to dash. Argghh. I've been
bitten again by bashisms in ./configure... :-/

Thanks for spotting it!

By the way, if someone knows about a _readable_ spec for the POSIX shell, I'd
welcome a pointer.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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