Hi,
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Roman Zippel wrote:
>
> > I don't quite understand, the Makefile doesn't care anymore about /bin/sh
> > with this patch, the Makefile checks only for $BASH and /bin/bash
>
> Exactly.
>
> The point is, neither $BASH nor /bin/bash may be set.
Is that really a problem? I think any system that has bash without
/bin/bash is simply broken.
> If you run make while running tcsh, "BASH" won't be set. We've always just
> defaulted to doing /bin/sh. Doesn't really seem to be a problem.
There are chances this is already broken anyway. We call external scripts
using $(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) ...), which ignores the "#! ..." setting.
bye, Roman
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