[PATCH] gen_build_files.sh: Remove bashisms

[Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn]

On Fri, 14 May 2010, Rob Landley wrote:

> On Thursday 13 May 2010 18:05:53 Peter Tyser wrote:
> > Using 'read' without a variable is not supported in many shells.  Lines
> > such as 'while read; do' in gen_build_files.sh would result in build
> > failures when using sh or dash as an interpreter:
>
> Simple fix: say #!/bin/bash at the top of all shell scripts, always.

Not surprisingly, I disagree :)
dash is 5+ times faster than bash.

> Speaking of which, when hush gets close to being a reasonable bash
> replacement (about when we're ready to delete ash), we should teach it
> to be callable via a "bash" alias, since so many scripts do this becase
> the Defective Annoying Shell is such a horrid Ubuntu-ism.

Not only.
Soon to become an as horrid debian-ism and debian derivate-ism.


Cheers,

-- 
Cristian