cvs commit: src/bin/sh expand.c parser.c parser.h

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jun 3 14:15:23 UTC 2008


Coleman Kane wrote:

> If we chose to do that, then I'd also suggest a compile flag to turn on
> "strict POSIX compliance". Then, perhaps some ports-auto-build-box
> somewhere could generate a report of the configure scripts that do such
> things, and could be used to nag them into fixing this problem.

This could certainly be done, but the requirement is the set of 
developers to process the output.

 > Maybe someone should nag the bash developers...

The bash developers have taken pride in how they have mangled their 
shell to support C-like syntax.

Kris


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