Subject: Re: [PATCH] [powerpc] do not expect executable permissions for in-tree shell scripts

From: Olaf Hering <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 19:44:37 +0200

On Sat, Jun 05, Sean MacLennan wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 10:10:39 +0200
> Olaf Hering <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > scripts in the kernel source do not have executable permissions if
> > they were created with patch(1) run mkuboot.sh with bash, its tagged
> > as bash script.
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to use ${SHELL}? Not every system has bash.

Maybe.
As it stands right now, mkuboot.sh does not run without bash.

And:
Reality check please.
A _development system_ without bash, installed per default on every sane
Linux distro, does most likely not exist.

Olaf