Re: [Quilt-dev] 0.50 in Debian + Simple patch for inclusion: Fix manpage generation under dash

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Mon, 09 Jan 2012, Jean Delvare wrote:
> I'd like to make sure I understand your problem so that we can come up 
> with a solution. You're using dash as your /bin/sh implementation. What 
> is the reason for this? Is it a performance issue? Or is bash really not 
> available at build time?

Performance is the reason, yes.

bash is always available as /bin/bash.

> I couldn't come up with an alternative for the shell code above. If you 
> have bash available (and I believe you do, otherwise configure would 
> complain) then I think the best option is to move the documentation 
> generation code out of the Makefile to an external bash script.

That or fix the Makefile so that it uses bash as the interpreter.
As I said in my previous message, I believe that you can do that
by setting "SHELL = bash" in the Makefile.

Cheers,
-- 
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