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

Joshua Bowman silverbacknet at gmail.com
Fri Oct 8 03:52:42 CEST 2010


 On 10/7/2010 6:05 PM, Alex Jurkiewicz wrote:
> 2010/10/7 Måns Rullgård <mans at mansr.com <mailto: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.
>
> Alex

SCO OpenServer and Cray UNICOS are literally the only two Unices ever that have /bin/env instead
of /usr/bin/env.

-- 
Joshua Bowman
Silverback Networks



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