Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: >On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 03:17:30PM +0100, Toby White wrote: > > >>Since they are Makefiles, there is no convention (is there?) for specifying >>which shell should be used to execute commands. >> >> > >I use "export SHELL=/bin/bash" in the top of Makefiles where I use bashisms. >I greatly prefer that over making the makefile harder to read by conforming to >arcane POSIXisms. > >--Jeroen > > > I believe at least /etc/init.d/rcS script have to be in POSIX shell as it can be used in crashed enviroment. All other scripts can have #!/bin/bash as beginning. Anyway, as debian has port to embedded machines (like PocketPC/ARM) there is high possibility to be needed a tiny variant of the distribution. For compatibility and less work probably it is better all major scripts to be in POSIX shell
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