On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 02:27:07PM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 October 2007 14:20:14 John Levon wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 02:14:38PM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > > > http://xenbits.xensource.com/staging/xen-unstable.hg?rev/08295dc13166
> > > >
> > > > broke our build. The script is not portable as claimed (e.g.
> > > > traditional Bourne shell has no $( ... ) construct).
> > >
> > > The only one bash-specific thing I could find was the [:alpha:] notion.
> > > This changeset makes it work on BSD's /bin/sh.
> > > Looks like BSD's /bin/sh is not that traditional... :)
>
> Looking through get-fields.sh, it seems the $( ... ) constructs can be
> replaced with backticks. This should make Solaris' /bin/sh happy.
vim is highlighting stuff like
type=${token#COMPAT_HANDLE?}
type=${type%?}
type=${type#compat_}
as bad, but I don't know what those constructs do.
regards
john
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