Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] GEC bootstrap

[Bernd S. <ber...@in...>]

At 28 Jul 2007 19:47:05 +0100,
Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Eric" == Eric Bezault <er...@go...> writes:
> 
>     Eric> I think that the shell script is invoked by using C's
>     Eric> 'system'.  Something like:
> 
>     Eric>     system("/path/to/gec.sh")
> 
>     Eric> So, do you think that calling:
> 
>     Eric>     system("sh /path/to_gec.sh")
> 
>     Eric> would work? Or should I write:
> 
> Yes.
> 
>     Eric>     system("/bin/sh /path/to_gec.sh")
> 
>     Eric> (in case 'sh' was not the in the path, or aliased to
>     Eric> something else)?
> 
> Sh should always be in the path. On Linux it is nearly always a
> symbolic link to /bin/bash (it is here). 
> So I don't think it matters. /bin/sh is safest, I guess.

I can confirm that 'sh' should always be in the path on a Unix system,
so just calling 'sh <script>' should always work. I am saying "should"
as there are some very strange Unix systems out there ... ;-)

Bernd