[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Move BeOS-specific code into os_support.c

[François Revol]

> 
> 
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> 
> >
> > Michael A. Kohn said:
> >
> >> Also in the configure script, the first set of lines under "make 
> > > sure we
> >> are running under a compatible shell" have to be commented out to 
> > > work on
> >> BeOS and MingW compiled under MSys on Windows.
> >
> > Those tests are there for a reason.  If they fail, the configure 
> > script will
> > not work properly.
> >
> > -- 
> > M?ns Rullg?rd
> > mru at inprovide.com
> 
> Could be.  The configure script seems to work fine after commenting 
> out 
> those lines tho.
> 
> What's interesting is msys doesn't even include a "bash.exe" but 
> instead 
> has an sh.exe (and I'm 99% sure BeOS was the same.. I had to make a 
> symbolic link from sh to bash).. when I type sh --version on Msys it
> says: GNU bash, version 2.04.0(1)-release (i686-pc-msys)..
> 
> I believe BeOS did the same thing.. sh is really bash under a new 
> name..

Yes it is. /bin/sh in BeOS has always been bash.
There is no earthling law that says bash should be named bash.


Fran?ois.