Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl.

Rob Landley
2009-01-04T02:23:20Z

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