Re: [PATCH v2] build: Option for building all tools in a single binary

[Jim Meyering]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 07/13/2014 01:59 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>> On 07/12/2014 06:56 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> Here is the complete rolled up patch, which I'm about ready to push.
>>> http://www.pixelbeat.org/cu/single-binary_v10.patch

While the build succeeded with other shells, the new dependency
generation would fail with "/bin/sh: line 1:  -2: substring expression < 0"
for /bin/sh that happened to be bash-3.x. Using that notation
(name=${man:4: -2}) would also fail with dash and ksh-based
shells.  Here's a fix:

0001-build-adjust-new-rule-not-to-depend-on-bash-4.x.patch.txt
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