Re: Condition evaluation removed

[Giles Anderson]

Thanks Paul

Point taken about using 'export' and '.'

And, as it happens very valid, as I now have an AIX machine added to the
mix.

2008/9/12 Paul Smith <address@hidden>

> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 16:45 +0100, Giles Anderson wrote:
> >    export ORAENV_ASK=NO
> >    export ORACLE_SID=SID1
> >    source oraenv
>
> Not answering your question, but: please don't use this format.  This
> results in your configure file being egregiously and needlessly
> bash-specific; it is not portable and will not run with POSIX-compliant
> sh implementations.
>
> Instead, use:
>
>        ORAENV_ASK=NO
>        ORACLE_SID=SID1
>        export ORAENV_ASK ORACLE_SID
>        . oraenv
>
> Writing sh-compliant scripts is not much more onerous than writing bash
> scripts, once you know the difference, and it's a huge boon to people
> trying to use your code on systems where bash is not /bin/sh (even a
> number of Linux distributions now use smaller, faster shells for /bin/sh
> rather than bash).
>
> If you want an easy way to check, install ash or dash or similar on your
> system and use those to run your configure script.
>