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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:59:14 -0500
From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@apache.org>
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On 02/21/12 10:15, Herbert Duerr wrote:
>> No objection to your plan but in general I do dislike the excessive
>> dependence we have on bash. Perhaps you can clean the bash
>> script too? It doesn't look too bad:
>>
>> > checkbashisms FreeBSDAMDEnv.Set.sh
>> script FreeBSDAMDEnv.Set.sh does not appear to have a #! interpreter 
>> line
>
> That's easy.
>
>> possible bashism in FreeBSDAMDEnv.Set.sh line 266 (alias):
>> alias mkout="perl $SOLARENV/bin/mkout.pl"
>> possible bashism in FreeBSDAMDEnv.Set.sh line 267 (alias):
>> alias deliver="perl $SOLARENV/bin/deliver.pl"
>> possible bashism in FreeBSDAMDEnv.Set.sh line 268 (alias):
>> alias build="perl $SOLARENV/bin/build.pl"
>> possible bashism in FreeBSDAMDEnv.Set.sh line 269 (alias):
>> alias build_client="perl $SOLARENV/bin/build_client.pl"
>> possible bashism in FreeBSDAMDEnv.Set.sh line 270 (alias):
>> alias zipdep="perl $SOLARENV/bin/zipdep.pl"
>> possible bashism in FreeBSDAMDEnv.Set.sh line 271 (alias):
>> alias nmake="dmake"
>
> What is the problem with these alias commands? Of course the *csh 
> equivalents would omit the equal sign, but do any non-csh shells have 
> a different syntax here?
>
> Herbert

According to Wikipedia:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_%28command>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_(command) 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_%28command%29>

...
Aliases were absent from theBourne shell 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_shell>, which had the more powerful 
facility of functions. The alias concept was imported intoBourne Again 
Shell <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_%28Unix_shell%29>(bash) and 
theKorn shell <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korn_shell>(ksh).

___

So I think we cannot count on having alias for older bin/sh.

FWIW, the checkbashisms script (from sourceforge) is very cool
but not without flaws: some shells do support some bashisms,
and in the case of fetch_tarballs.sh, which is clean now, it appears
the Solaris shell still doesn't like it.

cheers,

Pedro.