[yocto] bash specific syntax in bbclass files

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 3 May 2013, Trevor Woerner wrote:

> If every other distribution, over the next year, switched to
> python-3 as their default, but (instead of updating) future versions
> of Ubuntu installed a symlink called python-3 pointing back to
> python-2, would that hold back Yocto from adopting python-3-isms
> too?
>
> It's sad how Ubuntu has so effectively killed the adoption of all
> features of bash (the default shell on many Linux distributions)
> introduced in the last 10 years by masquerading their crippled shell
> as "bash". And it's even sadder to see how so many projects, in
> response, have simply said "let's write all our shell scripts in
> original Bourne shell syntax" as a result.

  personally, i try to be posix-compliant as much as possible to
avoid this kind of grief.

rday

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