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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Patch for Menuconfig script
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 08:53:27 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21071.1026168807@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Jul 2002 08:14:12 MST." <20020708151412.GB695@opus.bloom.county>

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 08:14:12 -0700, 
Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 11:22:10PM +0100, Riley Williams wrote:
>> > This is just a patch to the Menuconfig script (can be easily adapted
>> > to the other ones) that allows you to configure the kernel without
>> > the requirement of bash (I tested it with ksh, in POSIX-only mode).  
>> > Feel free to flame me :P
>> 
>> Does it also work in the case where the current shell is csh or tcsh
>> (for example)?
>
>Er.. why wouldn't it?
>$ head -1 scripts/Menuconfig 
>#! /bin/sh

The #! line is irrelevant.  The script is invoked via

  $(CONFIG_SHELL) scripts/Menuconfig arch/$(ARCH)/config.in

Large chunks of kbuild assume that CONFIG_SHELL is bash.  Don't bother
trying to cleanup all the code that assumes bash, just
  make CONFIG_SHELL=/path/to/bash ...


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-08 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-07  1:05 Patch for Menuconfig script Justin Hibbits
2002-07-07 22:22 ` Riley Williams
2002-07-08 15:14   ` Tom Rini
2002-07-08 15:22     ` Justin R Hibbits
2002-07-08 17:44     ` Riley Williams
2002-07-08 18:18       ` Tom Rini
2002-07-11 20:06         ` Riley Williams
2002-07-11 20:23           ` Tom Rini
2002-07-08 22:53     ` Keith Owens [this message]
2002-07-08 23:27       ` Sanctus Evanidus
2002-07-08 23:40         ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-10 23:13       ` David Weinehall
2002-07-10 23:40         ` HDD test bench Mukesh Rajan
2002-07-10 23:49           ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-07-11  7:35         ` Patch for Menuconfig script Adrian Bunk

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