Bug#379721: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#379721: xen-3.0: FTBFS: bashisms

[Julien Cristau]

On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 09:25:51 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:

> Please prove (via POSIX/SuS document) that this is not allowed in shell.
> My quick check says the following:
> 
> | %start  complete_command
> | %%
> | complete_command : [..] | list
> | list             : [..] | and_or
> | and_or           : pipeline | and_or OR_IF linebreak pipeline
> | pipeline         : pipe_sequence | [..]
> | pipe_sequence    : command | [..]
> | command          : [..] | compound_command | [..]
> | compound_command : [..] | subshell | [..]
> | subshell         : '(' compound_list ')'
> 
I don't think the problem was with [ ], but with the configure script in
that version of xen-3.0, which I haven't looked at.
I'm just saying that with the current version, xen-3.0 builds fine with
/bin/sh -> dash.

Cheers,
Julien