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Re: ./configure script prototype

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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date
Nov 14, 2005, 16:11 UTC
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Chris Wedgwood wrote:
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> On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 03:32:13PM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
> 
>>Dunno. I only know bash-scripting, really. I'll replace them with
>>some sed thing instead.
> 
> 
> For some people /bin/sh != /bin/bash so you probably want "!/bin/bash"
> instead.

Ach no. The configure script really needs to be portable. POSIX (or SUS or some such) define a minimum syntax that any shell must support when invoked as /bin/sh.

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