[x264-devel] Portability fix for FreeBSD - use /bin/sh instead of /bin/bash
David Conrad
lessen42 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 8 04:34:13 CEST 2010
On Oct 7, 2010, at 6:05 PM, Alex Jurkiewicz wrote:
> 2010/10/7 Måns Rullgård <mans at mansr.com>
> > using '/usr/bin/env bash' would be more portable.
>
> Not really. Nothing requires 'env' to reside in /usr/bin.
>
>
> bash exists in /bin on Linux and /usr/local/bin on FreeBSD, whereas env exists in /usr/bin on both. Looking at all other Unices, I'd be surprised if env is located elsewhere more often than bash.
tools/*.pl uses /bin/env, so there's definitely somewhere (gentoo?) that puts it elsewhere.
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