Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng 2.13-rc1

[DervishD <lkml@dervishd.net>]

    Hi Mike :)

 * Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> dixit:
> On Friday 06 July 2007, DervishD wrote:
> >     I really like the spirit of CMake. Of course, it adds a dependency,
> > but IMHO is much safer to depend on CMake being installed (or Perl, for
> > that matter) than to depend on a shell. Every shell out there seems to
> > do things on its own, and apart from dash, which is more or less
> > standard, the rest of shells do actually violate the standard one way or
> > another (in fact, configure script include workarounds for at least Bash
> > and Zsh).
> 
> careful, you tread into dangerous territory making silly statements like that.  
> by "standard" you probably mean "POSIX standard" which dash too has had 
> plenty of bugs in terms of implementing it properly (and still does).

    Probably, I haven't carried thoroughly tests, but up to date, it's
the most POSIX compliant shell I've found. Probably dash is crappy too,
regarding POSIX compliance, but that only reinforces my point: depending
on shells is less safe than depending on CMake.

> and claiming that it's safer to depend on CMake 
> than bash in this Linux world is just plain bogus.

    Probably. I didn't claim that, anyway. I said "shell" and not
"Bash". Depending on a C program is safer, IMHO, than depending on the
features of an unknown shell. And FWIW, /bin/sh can be *any* shell on
*any* system where autotools run.

    And yes, I have bash installed on my system because some people
insist in writing bash scripts while asking for "#!/bin/sh". That's
bogus.

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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