OpenJDK Build error on Ubuntu 8.04

[Andrew John Hughes]

2008/6/3 Kelly O'Hair <Kelly.Ohair at sun.com>:
> As far as I know, only Ubuntu (and only 8.04?) depends on bash.
> No other OS seems to have a problem using plain old antique sh.
>
> ---
>
> Ideally, these sh scripts used in the build process should be changed
> to be something else, maybe small Java apps. Someday.
>
> -kto
>

The shift to using Ant already made the build more tricky IMO.
Relying on Java for building Java even more just seems prone to
problems,
especially when it comes to bootstrapping.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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