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old system shells (was: kde moves to scons. The future of autotools?)
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Ralf Wildenhues |
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old system shells (was: kde moves to scons. The future of autotools?) |
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Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:04:30 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.4.1i |
Hi Harlan,
* Harlan Stenn wrote on Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 10:20:36PM CEST:
> As long as we can guarantee that one can compile a shell that supports
> the functionality that auto* needs I'm fine with that.
>
> I still get to support lots of ancient (ultrix, OSF/1, etc) systems.
Hmm, according to Sven Maschecks pages, both of these should have at
least one shell with functions. Does the shell function spy trigger
on these? (To test, you can create a minimal configure.ac consisting
solely of AC_INIT and AC_OUTPUT, run CVS autoconf over it and run the
resulting configure script on those systems.)
Is there good shell/systems documentation for these systems online?
> If this shell configures with auto*, there is also a bootstrap problem.
Yep.
Cheers,
Ralf