Re: smarter makes

[Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 02:52:15PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >No, of course I do not know.  I would guess that the top line contains
> >/bin/sh, and on a lot of systems there is not going to be even /bin.
> >And even if we forget about /bin, then should we call sh, ash, bash,
> >ksh, pdksh or whatever flavors of sh exists locally?
> 
> Ilya, this is a shell script, which, by definition means that there is a
> program called "sh" which runs it. 

Wrong.  A lot of systems will not have sh, but may have something like
pdksh etc.

> Sure, those others exist, but there
> is certainly a link from sh if one of them is standing in for sh.

You are confused.  Look at the possible output from Configure about
running Configure on a different shell interpreter.

Ilya

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