[auton-users] arch*.sh scripts

[Paul Komarek]

On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 15:37, Pat Gunn wrote:
> > Paul already found one non-standard call ( $() instead of `` - I'd have
> > missed this since the FreeBSD sh also happens to support this). Apart from
> > that, "make" needs to be "gmake" everywhere.
> >
> > With this change I can make "sh ../smallbutuseful/archdir.sh" work.
> >
> > archexe.sh doesn't like the pushd/popd. Maybe just enclose a big chunk in a
> > () block (meaning to spawn a subshell for it, which forget all the "cd"s
> > you do after it terminates).
> 
> I personally think this is wasted effort -- it makes the script harder
> to read, and for very little benefit. Bash is on all facilitized OS's
> we need to care about, and is on many other OS's, and is easy to install
> elsewhere. I don't think it's at all unreasonable to require it, any more
> than requiring that gnumake be installed is unreasonable.

I would agree if the changes weren't trivial.  Thankfully it appears we
can make everyone happy with a few minor changes.

-Paul