Xorg Modular build on FreeBSD 7.0

[Josh Triplett]

Vincent Blondel wrote:
> On Tue, July 24, 2007 10:50, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Vincent Blondel wrote:
>> It would be nice to change /bin/sh with /bin/bash. This would be clear
>> for BSD people that maybe not know that /bin/sh is most of the time just a
>>  symbolic link to /bin/bash on Linux systems. Furthermore, it is in this
>> case incompatible with native /bin/sh on FreeBSD platforms but this is
>> not my current problem and I give you this little warning just for info.
> 
> What errors did you receive when using FreeBSD's native /bin/sh ?
> 
> bash should not be required. If it is, then that is a bug. Please provide
> details so this can be fixed.
> 
> The syntax 'if [ $var == "val" ]' is not so really appreciated by Bourne
> Shell. If you look at both files http://jlang.dyndns.org/files/Xorg/sh and
> http://jlang.dyndns.org/files/Xorg/bash, you will see the behaviour
> differences between sh and bash.

The use of == with test or [ constitutes a bashism.  If you see any instance
of that in a /bin/sh script in Xorg, that represents a bug, with a very
simple fix: s/==/=/.

- Josh Triplett


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