[poky] Sourcing of poky-init-build-env from a non-bash shell...

Gary Thomas gary at mlbassoc.com
Sat Nov 20 01:43:32 PST 2010


On 11/19/2010 06:23 PM, Mark Hatle wrote:
> In recent days I've had a few people complain to me that the only way they can
> use Poky is to switch from their preferred shell to bash.  So I took it upon
> myself to attempt to address this issue.
>
> In poky-contrib, commit 479e626839e3c9beb789ec2919d5438930eb04cf, head of
> mhatle/initenv branch, is a patch that will allow the script to be sourced in
> any reasonable shell.
>
> I've attempted to test this with:
>    * bash
>    * dash
>    * ksh (ksh-93)
>    * zsh
>    * tcsh
>
> It should also work with csh and pdksh, but I don't have a local version to try it.
>
> If anyone using Poky regularly uses a non-bash shell, could you please try this
> and verify that things are working for you?
>
> For those of you who use the bash shell regularly, if you wouldn't mind trying
> it in your configurations I'd appreciate it.
>
> (I'm always looking for code reviews as well....)
>
> --Mark
>
> (Commit message follows)
>
> commit 479e626839e3c9beb789ec2919d5438930eb04cf
> Author: Mark Hatle<mark.hatle at windriver.com>
> Date:   Fri Nov 19 18:10:31 2010 -0600

Where can I find this?  It doesn't seem to be in the main Poky tree,
so I assume poky-contrib?

Thanks

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