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

[Martin Quinson]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 02:50:12PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> 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.

So, the fix would be to revert the patch to use bash portability layer
here, and simply force the use of bash, I guess. If nobody speaks
against it, I'll do so tomorrow or so.

Bye, Mt.

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