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Re: to bash or not to bash
- To: Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr at jpr dot com>
- Subject: Re: to bash or not to bash
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 20:48:21 -0700
- cc: EGCS Developers <egcs at cygnus dot com>
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <19980125015844.63834@jpr.com>you write:
> # l egcs/configure.in
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 33989 Jan 22 13:11 egcs/configure.in
> # head -1 egcs/configure.in
> #! /bin/bash
>
> Uh, why should this, or any other script, assume that /bin/bash exists?
Good question. Though in the case of the toplevel configure.in I don't think
it actually matters because neither configure.in nor the files created from
it are ever executed directly -- it's actually executed via ". tmpfile" where
the tmpfile is created by massaging configure.in.
jeff