Re: [Rosegarden-devel] updating strings

[Shelagh M. <on...@tp...>]

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:21:42 -0400, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:

> On Sunday 29 April 2007 9:23 am, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
>> Ahem, but I do have bash installed here (Ubuntu Feisty Fawn) :)
> 
> But the script was set up to use /bin/sh as the interpreter.  On most
> systems, that's symlinked to /bin/bash, but maybe either it was pointing
> somewhere else on your system, or your version of bash has some new mode
> where it behaves more like sh when invoked as sh or something.  No
> telling.  Pedro's fix was a good solution.  It's always better to be
> specific, instead of relying on finding expected default environments.

I heard a rumor that in feisty, they made the default sh point to dash for
some reason. It's supposed to be quicker for startup scripts as it's posix
compatible. But I haven't really explored that rumor. (Who would have
guessed two years ago that I'd have been throwing around terms such as
posix and even having a clue what they mean!)

Shelagh