Re: /bin/sh portability question

From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Sep 23, 2005, 10:34 UTC
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP03087B2B759861CF1C864AAE960@CEZ.ICE>
In-Reply-To: <7vfyrwdtv0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, September 23, 2005 5:19 am, Junio C Hamano said:

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> "Sean" <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> writes:
>
>> If not, would you accept a patch that first converted the shell scripts
>> to
>> #!/bin/bash and then added a "make install" option that allowed them to
>> be
>> replaced?   Something like "make install S=/bin/ash" for instance?
>
>     $ make SHELL_PATH=/bin/bash
>
> Perhaps?
>

Heh.. so you've already got that working :o) So on Solaris one fix would be to just use the SHELL_PATH setting when installing to point to /bin/bash. What do you think about making /bin/bash the default?

Sean