Re: [Tinycc-devel] Bashisms in configure and gcctestsuite

[grischka]

Thomas Preud'homme wrote:
> > > a recent test for bashisms in all debian packages made me discover a few
> > > bashisms in configure and gcctestsuite shell scripts. I fixed them in
> > > commit dc265feb63c70a1a76fb566a6c05fe62246b65a0
> > Well, that's from bashisms to unixism.  E.g. it breaks with MinGW/MSYS
> > which doesn't have /dev/urandom, dd, cksum and such.
> Oh. I thought shell scripts needs cygwin to run on windows and that cygwin is 
> POSIX compliant.

See tcc-win32.txt.

In any case cygwin is not supported, neither as build nor as runtime
environment.

> > Maybe we don't really need random temporary filenames at all.
> or at least it doesn't need to be as random as that. Something like tcc-
> filename-$(date "+%s") would be enough I think, wouldn't it?

Usual (auto-)configure just use 'conftest.xxx' in current directory.

--- grischka