[MPlayer-users] Re: [PATCH] ./configure syntax error

[Anssi Saari]

On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 09:52:38PM -0800, Steven M. Schultz wrote:

> 	I didn't mean to stir up such a fuss.

> 	Is there a system that does not have 'bash'?

I'd assume there are lots, systems other than Linux. Certainly I never 
had /bin/bash when I worked with Suns. My FreeBSD has bash in /usr/local/bin
and /bin/sh is something else, maybe ash. I wouldn't have bash on my Debian system
either, but bashisms seem to have crept into some Debian package installation
scripts.

Did I miss something or didn't this start when someone complained that
the configure script didn't work when his /bin/sh was pdksh or zsh? IMHO,
there's no reason it should, since AFAIK neither pdksh nor zsh claim
compatibility to traditional /bin/sh.