From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762136AbYD2Qsv (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:48:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755482AbYD2Qso (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:48:44 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:35312 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753629AbYD2Qsn (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:48:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:48:38 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Timur Tabi , Roland Kuhn , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: cross-compiling on OS X, make menuconfig fails Message-ID: <20080429164838.GM5882@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <481529B6.6030802@freescale.com> <8FEAC32C-868F-468C-B383-8450D400691C@e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de> <48173607.6080307@freescale.com> <20080429164501.GA18018@uranus.ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080429164501.GA18018@uranus.ravnborg.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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.