[x264-devel] Portability fix for FreeBSD - use /bin/sh instead of /bin/bash

Måns Rullgård mans at mansr.com
Thu Oct 7 13:28:55 CEST 2010


Tony Theodore <tonyt at logyst.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> FreeBSD doesn't have /bin/bash, so configure and version.sh fail.
> Using /bin/sh allows them to succeed, so I was wondering if it is
> possible to change this. There doesn't seem to be any bash specific
> requirements, but if there are,

If there are, they can easily be fixed.

> using '/usr/bin/env bash' would be more portable.

Not really.  Nothing requires 'env' to reside in /usr/bin.

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Måns Rullgård
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