[Jikesrvm-core] Advanced bash-ism

[Chris H. <hof...@cs...>]

Just wanted to point out that when you consider the System Prerequisites
for Jikes RVM the following line:

  ./rvm/bin/runrvm: line 57: `for arg in "${user_args[@]}"; do'

will not work in bash version 2.02.1(2)-release, though it is valid in
bash version 2.05b.0(2)-release.

True, the older version is from way back in 1998, but we'd managed to
get by with it until now!

[And in case there are others in the same boat, a vanilla installation
of bash-2.05 on AIX 4.3.3 fails!
  /usr/include/sys/inttypes.h:521:#define PRIdMAX         %lld
There is a file in the bash source that uses PRIdMAX that does not
expect its value to have the % sign in front.]

Chris


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Chris Hoffmann -- Dept. of Computer Science/UMass at Amherst
http://www-ali.cs.umass.edu/~hoffmann