Hi Geert, Thanks for considering to include TeXmacs in NetBSD.
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:01:33PM +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > I use TeXmacs on NetBSD, and it works great, except a tiny issue with the > plugins: most of them are #!/bin/bash scripts, but many non-Linux systems > (*BSD, Solaris, ...) don't have /bin/bash. However, the plugin scripts > seem to work fine with a POSIX /bin/sh, too. So we (NetBSD packagers) > patched them to use #!/bin/sh. You may want to do this in the TeXmacs > sources too, since AFAIK on Linux systems, /bin/sh is a symlink to > /bin/bash, so it won't break anything but will make it work on a larger > variety of UNIX systems. > > These are the files we patched: > > plugins/dratex/bin/tm_dratex > plugins/eukleides/bin/tm_eukleides > plugins/gnuplot/bin/tm_gnuplot > plugins/lisp/bin/tm_lisp > plugins/lush/bin/tm_lush > plugins/matlab/bin/tm_matlab > plugins/maxima/bin/maxima_detect > plugins/maxima/bin/tm_maxima > plugins/mupad/bin/tm_mupad_help > plugins/octave/bin/tm_octave > plugins/reduce/bin/tm_reduce > plugins/xypic/bin/tm_xypic This issue is indeed a bit problematic, because some systems don't have /bin/bash, while others don't use bash as the standard shell. In the past, I changed from /bin/sh to /bin/bash because several people asked me to do so. Now you ask me to go the other way around. What would be a more reasonable solution? Best wishes, Joris _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
