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From: Sanctus Evanidus <evanidus@videotron.ca>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch for Menuconfig script
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 19:27:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D2A1FD9.nailEY1K2ZSH@videotron.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21071.1026168807@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au>


Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> wrote:

> The #! line is irrelevant.  The script is invoked via
>
>   $(CONFIG_SHELL) scripts/Menuconfig arch/$(ARCH)/config.in
>
> Large chunks of kbuild assume that CONFIG_SHELL is bash.  Don't bother
> trying to cleanup all the code that assumes bash, just
>   make CONFIG_SHELL=/path/to/bash ...

I personaly don't think it should be assumed that every systems even has bash installed, but instead that every systems have a POSIX compilant sh.

In other words, without cleanups, someone who want to execute that script would be "forced" to install bash.

-Evan

  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-08 23:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-07  1:05 Patch for Menuconfig script Justin Hibbits
2002-07-07 22:22 ` Riley Williams
2002-07-08 15:14   ` Tom Rini
2002-07-08 15:22     ` Justin R Hibbits
2002-07-08 17:44     ` Riley Williams
2002-07-08 18:18       ` Tom Rini
2002-07-11 20:06         ` Riley Williams
2002-07-11 20:23           ` Tom Rini
2002-07-08 22:53     ` Keith Owens
2002-07-08 23:27       ` Sanctus Evanidus [this message]
2002-07-08 23:40         ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-10 23:13       ` David Weinehall
2002-07-10 23:40         ` HDD test bench Mukesh Rajan
2002-07-10 23:49           ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-07-11  7:35         ` Patch for Menuconfig script Adrian Bunk

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