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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Patch for Menuconfig script 
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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 ...