Re: [Nix-dev] Down with /bin/sh!

[Rob Vermaas]

Hi Ludo,

  • Right after unpacking a source tarball, all the source files go
    through ‘patch-shebang’, which replaces any #!/bin/sh and similar
    with the right path.

I would not like such a change in stdenv of nixpkgs, without an option to disable this. For example, we use nix to build some packages that run outside of nix, and for those, we do not want to replace all the references to /bin/sh in all source files/scripts. I haven't thought of it much, but in general I would like an approach better that would *not* change the source code of packages by default, but only when it is really necessary.

Cheers,

Rob

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