Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1347555] Re: qemu build failure, hxtool is a bash script, not a /bin/sh script

[Peter Maydell]

On 23 July 2014 17:31, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> Rather than change the Makefile to invoke the script with bash, we could
> instead bend over backwards to rewrite the script in a way that works
> with non-POSIX shells (as in, flag=`expr $flag ^ 1`), but that feels
> backwards to me.  Until someone is actively worried about porting qemu
> to a true Solaris environment, rather than just an heirloom-as-/bin/sh
> Linux environment, I don't think it's worth the effort.

My view on this has always been "we shouldn't assume bash,
but we can assume POSIX shell semantics". (And also that
we should assume /bin/sh is a POSIX shell, because it's the
21st century, and Solaris should just get with it :-))

thanks
-- PMM