Re: Bashisms in our rules file
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 10:59:02AM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> as Andreas Metzler pointed out in
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2004/05/msg00122.html
>
> (and in fact as bash's manpage says itself), brace expansion is a
> bashism. Thus, many other shells don't treat {} specially, and one gets:
>
> cp debian/config.{guess,sub} .
> cp: cannot stat `debian/config.{guess,sub}': No such file or directory
>
> We have lots of such brace expansions in debian/rules of tetex-base and
> tetex-bin. I will fix those. In order to keep the files readable, I will
> substitute paths by variables ($(txmfdir) and the like) throughout the
> file (even were no brace expansion was, to get consistent).
Why not just do:
SHELL = /bin/bash
at the start of debian/rules?
Julian
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