Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 25/25] build: do not create directories at configure time

[Eric Blake]

On 06/06/2012 09:15 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 06/06/2012 08:16 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Il 06/06/2012 14:03, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
>>> Can we use
>>>   mkdir -p "$(dirname "$2")"
>>>
>>> or are we still trying to be compatible with some non-POSIX
>>> shell from the dawn of time?
>>
>> Looks like we can, there are other occurrences of $() in configure.
> 
> I saw that too, but I thought $() was a bash-ism.

$() is required by POSIX.  The problem is that Solaris' /bin/sh does not
understand $(), since it is not a POSIX shell.

If you take care to sanitize shell execution into a sane shell (yes, it
is possible to write configure scripts that re-execute themselves under
a better shell than /bin/sh), then using $() can be one of the decision
points on whether a better shell has been found.

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