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From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Subject: Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl.
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 20:23:04 -0600
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To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Embedded Linux mailing list <linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

On Friday 02 January 2009 08:04:09 Theodore Tso wrote:
> Sounds like though modulo dealing with 64-bit arithmetic, your patches
> are mostly dash/POSIX.2 comformant, so you're probably mostly good on
> that front once you address the 32/64-bit issues.  I'd also suggest
> explicitly add a reminder to the shell scripts' comments to avoid
> bashisms for maximum portability, to remind developers in the future
> who might try to change the shell scripts to watch out for portability
> issues.

I changed the scripts to start with #!/bin/sh and retested under dash.

If scripts say #!/bin/sh when they actually need bash, or say #!/bin/bash when 
they work with dash, that should probably be fixed.

Rob