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authorGravatar Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>2012-05-03 21:59:58 +0300
committerGravatar David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>2012-07-25 08:17:24 -0300
commit4cedb2a3ea77b61a5d8e9fe56e8585d312ee96ca (patch)
tree82f17f370e4faa4aa3521bae87a05662581748f4 /configure
parenta89a2b276f59d8a97a7e3e6213f385aab79094a1 (diff)
configure: check whether shell is capable of parameter substring processing
'configure' script uses parameter substring extensively. It is Posix shell feature. Original Bourne shell does not have such features. Some systems still ships such shells as /bin/sh (for compatibility reasons -- shell scripts written on those platforms are expected to work on 1990's systems). Just testing whether parameter substring processing works will make the shell exit due to syntax error if it is not compatible. Therefore the test is executed in a subshell -- subshell exits with nonzero value when the operation in question fails. As 'if ! ...' does not work in Bourne shell, Short-circuiting construct '||' is used to print information message and exit when expected.
Diffstat (limited to 'configure')
-rwxr-xr-xconfigure14
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 3fad424c..dc0dba4c 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1,5 +1,19 @@
#! /bin/sh
+# Test whether this shell is capable of parameter substring processing.
+( option='a/b'; : ${option#*/} ) 2>/dev/null || {
+ echo "
+The shell interpreting '$0' is lacking some required features.
+
+To work around this problem you may try to execute:
+
+ ksh $0 $*
+ or
+ bash $0 $*
+"
+ exit 1
+}
+
# Store original IFS value so it can be changed (and restored) in many places.
readonly DEFAULT_IFS="$IFS"