From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>,
Roland Kuhn <rkuhn@e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cross-compiling on OS X, make menuconfig fails
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:48:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080429164838.GM5882@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080429164501.GA18018@uranus.ravnborg.org>
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 06:45:01PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >
> > I read in the latest Linux Journal magazine that someone noticed that even
> > though the kernel scripts say #!/bin/sh, many of them are really bash scripts.
> > This person went through the effort of changing the script to be true 'sh'
> > scripts. Has that code been merged in?
>
> I have no patches pending but I may have lost them.
> As I am 100% ignorant about what is bash and what is not bash specialities
> I will more or less be blind when I apply them so I hope they are well
> tested.
*shrug*
As a sanity check, try to run them with ash(1). Before going into review
of portability.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-29 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-28 1:34 timur
2008-04-28 1:51 ` Tony Breeds
2008-04-29 15:07 ` Timur Tabi
2008-04-29 16:45 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-04-29 17:20 ` Al Viro
2008-04-29 18:06 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-04-30 13:54 ` Timur Tabi
2008-04-30 14:18 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-03 6:55 ` SL Baur
2008-05-03 8:01 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-03 8:40 ` Roland Kuhn
2008-05-03 9:34 ` SL Baur
2008-05-12 13:22 ` Arnd Hannemann
2008-04-28 18:46 ` Roland Kuhn
2008-04-29 14:51 ` Timur Tabi
2008-04-29 16:45 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-04-29 16:48 ` Al Viro [this message]
2008-04-29 20:27 ` Why use /bin/sh in kernel build system? Mark Rustad
2008-04-29 21:41 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-04-29 22:24 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 22:40 ` Timur Tabi
2008-04-30 9:42 ` SL Baur
2008-04-30 11:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-29 22:46 ` cross-compiling on OS X, make menuconfig fails Bernd Petrovitsch
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-28 1:34 Timur Tabi
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