RFR: AARCH64: Top-level JDK changes

Magnus Ihse Bursie magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com
Mon Jan 12 11:49:34 UTC 2015


On 2015-01-12 05:31, Dean Long wrote:
> I found a small problem with the new config.sub wrapper.  It works 
> with the bash shell but not with the dash shell.
> The problem seems to be with this line:
>
>     result=`. $DIR/autoconf-config.sub $sub_args "$@"`
>
> "dash" doesn't seem to support args passed with ".", so $sub_args "$@" 
> are ignored.

bash is the required shell for running configure. We do not support 
non-bash shells. In fact, we go to lengths to try to ensure that we are 
indeed running under bash.

/Magnus


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