linux-kernel - Re: cross-compiling on OS X, make menuconfig fails

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Message-ID: <20080429164838.GM5882@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:48:38 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>,
	Roland Kuhn <rkuhn@....physik.tu-muenchen.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cross-compiling on OS X, make menuconfig fails

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.
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