linux-kernel - Re: Why use /bin/sh in kernel build system?

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Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:48:02 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Mark Rustad <mrustad@...il.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>,
	Roland Kuhn <rkuhn@....physik.tu-muenchen.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why use /bin/sh in kernel build system?


On Wednesday 2008-04-30 00:24, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>
>Hint: not every joe user may install bash into /bin... That's why we
>see some scripts begin with "/usr/bin/env bash" as there are less
>systems without env in /usr/bin than systems without bash in /bin (or
>at all).

Too bad #!bash does not search $PATH.
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