Re: /bin/sh portability question

From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Sep 23, 2005, 09:02 UTC
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On Fri, September 23, 2005 4:24 am, Junio C Hamano said:

> I haven't assessed the extent of damage if we tried to use ``
> for portability lately (I did once, and it did not look too bad
> back then).  If somebody comes up with a readable patch, I might
> be persuaded to take it [*1*].

Junio,

It sounds like changing the sha-bang line to "#!/bin/bash" would fix the problem on Solaris. As an aside, it would improve vi syntax highlighting as well. Does any target system lack bash?

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?

Sean