Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng 2.13-rc1

From: Mike Frysinger
Date: Fri Jul 06 2007 - 03:17:45 EST


On Friday 06 July 2007, Nix wrote:
> On 5 Jul 2007, Bernhard Walle stated:
> > While cmake itself isn't the problem,
> > often, it also depends on the version of cmake that is installed. The
> > good idea about auto* tools is the idea that you don't need to install
> > any tools to build, just to develop. A POSIX shell and Perl should be
> > installed everywhere ...
>
> You don't need Perl to run configure scripts, either, and it's only
> recently that it started requiring a POSIX shell rather than something
> of the calibre of Solaris's /bin/sh.

since when does autotools require a POSIX shell ?
-mike

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