Re: [klibc] not everybody uses bash

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Han Boetes wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>Han Boetes wrote:
>>
>>>Though most people do have which installed somewhere.
>>
>>Denied.  which has really bad properties on a lot of shells, and
>>unless you can trust "make" to invoke /usr/bin/which (or
>>whatever it happens to be), then you're screwed.
>>
>>The reason the script invokes bash explicitly is to deal with
>>people who *aren't* using bash as a shell.
> 
> 
> If people don't _have_ bash as a shell it won't work at all.
> 
> Every shell I know has ``type foo'' and return something like
> ``foo is /usr/bin/foo''
> 

"something like" isn't very good.  Anyway, I already reimplemented the 
path search in Perl in 1.0.6, eliminating the need for the shell to do 
that job.

	-hpa


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