Re: Why use /bin/sh in kernel build system?

[Timur Tabi]

Willy Tarreau wrote:

> Hint: not every joe user may install bash into /bin... That's why we
> see some scripts begin with "/usr/bin/env bash" as there are less
> systems without env in /usr/bin than systems without bash in /bin (or
> at all).

I agree that #!/bin/bash is a bad idea.  I think the easiest, and maybe the
best, approach is to fix shell issue one-by-one.  The one I found was easily
fixed by Al Viro's here-document change.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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