Re: cross-compiling on OS X, make menuconfig fails

From: Al Viro
Date: Tue Apr 29 2008 - 12:48:53 EST


On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 06:45:01PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >
> > I read in the latest Linux Journal magazine that someone noticed that even
> > though the kernel scripts say #!/bin/sh, many of them are really bash scripts.
> > This person went through the effort of changing the script to be true 'sh'
> > scripts. Has that code been merged in?
>
> I have no patches pending but I may have lost them.
> As I am 100% ignorant about what is bash and what is not bash specialities
> I will more or less be blind when I apply them so I hope they are well
> tested.

*shrug*

As a sanity check, try to run them with ash(1). Before going into review
of portability.
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