Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects

[Rüdiger Kuhlmann]

>--[Tom Lord]--<address@hidden>

>        > It could be that we should tell people to use Bash to build
>        > GNU packages if their native shells have trouble handling the
>        > job.  That would be a smaller change and perhaps worth doing.
> How is `bash' built?

>         >> You need to be able to compile the bootstrap packages in minimal
>       >> environments, in order to get a very basic GNU environment.
>       > I don't think we should do this at all.  The smallest version of the
>       > GNU system need not be "minimal", and making it so would be extra
>       > work, so we should not.
> Well, then I think you agree with me and you should conclude that
> forking as I've suggested is the right thing to do.

Actually no. With every more restriction you place on auto*, the less
portable is auto*. Having to install extra stuff to make things compile may
be okay, but what's if this particular package isn't available on your
platform? And: having the maintainer install a package is much less a
restriction than having the user install an extra package.

So, please show me a bash for AmigaOS to show that resctricting on bash
is a good idea. (Hint: there is none. pdksh is all there is.)

Yours, Rüdiger.

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