Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/05/19/11:20:32
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 08:11:34AM -0700, Dario Alcocer wrote:
> I'm not sure if this was intentional or not (being that /bin/sh is
> probably used by autoconf configure scripts), but ash is missing the
> 'getopts' built-in command. The manual page documents it, but the
> command isn't actually compiled in.
>
> Patch file is attached; for commands that are meant to be excluded, I've
> commented them out instead of using the '-j' flag (supposed to make job
> control commands.)
Thanks but that's not how ash is supposed to be used. Ash as part of
the Cygwin distro is "code-minimized" under the assumption that it's
*only* used for shell scripts using most plain bourne syntax (autoconf
is actually one example) and that it's good to have a shell which is
running fast since it doesn't have to care for the user interface.
So, ash is compiled under Cygwin with job control disabled, with a few
options missing to the `read command' etc. If you actually need all
these stuff, please use bash, not ash.
Corinna
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