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Re: Linux bootstrap, choice of shell



On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 04:20:12PM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
 > On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Patrick Welche wrote:
 > >I am just trying out pkgsrc on Ubuntu 10.04.3. I had a go with SH=/bin/tcsh,
 > >which passed bootstrap's shell test, but then:
 > 
 > I'd espect tcsh to fail, it's a csh sibling, not a sh sibling.
 > I'm successful with ksh on Debian, which actually seems to be a
 > link to /bin/zsh4(!).

If there's a shell test, it should grow an extra case or two so it can
reject csh, in case someone else is ever silly enough to try it. :-)

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David A. Holland
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