From: Morrison, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sorry, I should have said; it's the #!/bin/shell instruction
> which needs to
> be changed. Not the shell you're running...
What would you change it to?
/bin/sh is the standard unix shell.
95% of unix versions don't have /bin/bash
You could do something hacky like :
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if [ -z "$OSTYPE" ]
then
if [ -x /bin/bash ]
then
OSTYPE=`/bin/bash -c 'echo $OSTYPE'`
fi
fi
echo "OS = $OSTYPE"
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Morrison, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, 04 December 2001 3:55 pm
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: Cygwin, bash and OSTYPE
> >
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I recently upgraded my (cygwin) bash. This caused
> > bootstrap.sh to fail,
> > confused I checked everything twice, echo'd $OSTYPE to
> ensure it still
> > reported cygwin. Eventually, I found the error... OSTYPE is
> > not exported
> > under /bin/sh. Changing the shell to bash fixes it. Would
> > it be a terrible
> > upset to folks to change this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > J.
> >
> > PS I'm thinking that *lots* of projects will be caught out
> > with this...
> >
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