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On 5/14/12 5:51 PM, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
> On 8 May 2012 02:56, Scott Garman<scott.a.garman@intel.com>  wrote:
>>
>> I can understand why we're trying to ensure our build system doesn't require
>> /bin/sh to be bash, but I think support scripts like runqemu might be a
>> special case.
>>
>> What do other people in the community think of this? The runqemu script
>> isn't trivial, and it has to run in a lot of different contexts. Should we
>> put the time in to make it shell-agnostic, or allow it to require bash?
>
>   1) Do not require /bin/sh to be bash
>   2) It's ok, and for "right tool for the job" -reasons often prefered,
> to require that development machine has also bash installed.
>
>   So I'm happy with how runqemu currently has #!/bin/bash shebang. It
> requires bash to be present, but not necessarily as /bin/sh

I don't mind it using bash as long as it has bash-isms.  Note, the recent =~ 
stuff didn't work on my machine, even with bash.

--Mark

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