Re: shells/bash port, add a knob which symlinks to /bin/bash ?

From: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:55:44 -0500
On 9/12/2014 5:45 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> 
> On Sep 12, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> Forcing all upstream script writers to switch to "#!/usr/bin/env bash", or
>> to convert their scripts to "#!/bin/sh" and remove all bash-specific
>> behaviors, is getting harder and harder,
>> since many people are exposed to MacOS X and Linux on desktops.
> 
> Given the rigid nature of shebangs to begin with, it's really not that hard to write a sed command that will capture all instances of '#!.../bash[ foo]' and wire in an appropriate value of '...'.
> 
> In fact, this case is a ripe candidate for a <bsd.port.mk> command macro.
> 
> --lyndon
> 

There already is one and ports requires using it!

-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery


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