Please fix your broken From: header. On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 05:44:26PM +0300, Delian Delchev wrote: > 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. > 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 We were discussing use of bashisms in *Makefiles*, not in init scripts. Trying to reduce the memory usage of make/sh when building packages is almost always a false optimization. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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