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Re: ksh bug on Tru64 UNIX causes current libtool failure
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: ksh bug on Tru64 UNIX causes current libtool failure |
Date: |
Thu, 2 Jun 2005 13:03:41 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.4.1i |
Hi Norman, others,
* Norman Gray wrote on Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:36:53AM CEST:
> On 2005 Jun 2 , at 10.37, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>
> >Alternatively, the better option might be to tweak *DETECT_BETTER_SHELL
> >to prefer ksh over bin/sh..
>
> I don't really want to intervene in this debate, but: <wince>.
In my book that's not called wincing nor intervening if you provide
arguments against one of the suggested choices. Thanks!
> ksh has at least the unfortunate property that all file descriptors
> other than 0, 1, 2 are closed before an exec, and so aren't inherited
> by process children. Ksh seems unique in this, though it isn't listed
> as a problem in the autoconf section on shell portability issues.
> It's not a major problem -- and may not be a problem at all for
> libtool -- but it does make some otherwise attractive idioms
> impossible.
Could you be bothered to suggest a patch to the Autoconf folks?
Aside from that, do you use this within any autoconf-generated configure
scripts? Because the modified search *will* affect any package that
uses AC_PROG_LIBTOOL aka LT_INIT.
> >By the way, since tru64 seems a rather "interesting" target for
> >libtool:
>
> Oooh yes; oh yes indeedy. I've come to the conclusion that if your
> application builds on Tru64 and OS X, then it'll build just about
> anywhere.
Hehe. I believe Libtool has got OS X covered quite well, unlike Tru64
(and maybe IRIX, HPUX).
Regards,
Ralf
- Re: ksh bug on Tru64 UNIX causes current libtool failure, Nicolas Joly, 2005/06/01
- Re: ksh bug on Tru64 UNIX causes current libtool failure, Nicolas Joly, 2005/06/02
- FYI: ksh bug on Tru64 UNIX causes current libtool failure, Ralf Wildenhues, 2005/06/05
- Re: FYI: ksh bug on Tru64 UNIX causes current libtool failure, Nicolas Joly, 2005/06/07
- Re: FYI: ksh bug on Tru64 UNIX causes current libtool failure, Ralf Wildenhues, 2005/06/07
- Re: FYI: ksh bug on Tru64 UNIX causes current libtool failure, Nicolas Joly, 2005/06/07
- Re: FYI: ksh bug on Tru64 UNIX causes current libtool failure, Ralf Wildenhues, 2005/06/07
- Re: FYI: ksh bug on Tru64 UNIX causes current libtool failure, Nicolas Joly, 2005/06/07