[PATCH] Require bash shell for symlink-mesa.sh

Igor Mozolevsky igor at hybrid-lab.co.uk
Sat Mar 8 08:20:02 PST 2008


On 08/03/2008, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

>  - echo -n: Autoconf has feature tests to avoid this, but they're not used here.
>  - Potentially empty variables not quoted

echo -n is perfectly fine on sh (man sh on FreeBSD confirms that)
empty non-quoted variables trip up `test', so that's a big problem,
from what you're saying bash just pretends the problem doesn't
exist...


cheers,
Igor :-)



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