Re: [Gm2] Shell games

[Michael Lambert]

John,

I _thought_ I had been able to work around all the instances by saying

     env SHELL=/bin/bash ./configure ...

and

     make SHELL=/bin/bash ...

Michael

On 10 Nov 2008, at 13:30, John O Goyo wrote:

> I have encountered a new problem on Solaris 10 and Ubuntu 8.04.
>
> In both cases, various scripts in gm2 are tagged to run under /bin/ 
> sh, which
> in Solaris and Ubuntu is not bash but the posix shell.  (One  
> difference is
> that functions in the latter are not defined with the keyword  
> "function".)
> Until very recently, this was not a problem, but now the scripts on  
> said
> systems are explicitly run through /bin/sh and not /bin/bash  
> (despite my
> setting of SHELL).
>
> Has anyone else seen this?
>
> john