[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Fix bash path in shebangs

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Mon Jul 31 17:22:16 CEST 2017


On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 09:11:11AM -0600, alan somers wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 3:28 AM, Bruce Richardson
> <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 02:41:46PM -0600, asomers at gmail.com wrote:
> >> From: Alan Somers <asomers at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> "/bin/bash" is a Linuxism.  "/usr/bin/env bash" is portable.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Alan Somers <asomers at gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >>  examples/performance-thread/l3fwd-thread/test.sh | 2 +-
> >>  usertools/dpdk-setup.sh                          | 2 +-
> >>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/examples/performance-thread/l3fwd-thread/test.sh b/examples/performance-thread/l3fwd-thread/test.sh
> >> index b7718b622..eb1fe2dc2 100755
> >> --- a/examples/performance-thread/l3fwd-thread/test.sh
> >> +++ b/examples/performance-thread/l3fwd-thread/test.sh
> >> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> >> -#!/bin/bash
> >> +#!/usr/bin/env bash
> >>
> >>  case "$1" in
> >>
> > This script doesn't look to be using any bash specific features to me,
> > so a better fix might be to change it to use /bin/sh rather than
> > requiring bash itself. [Needs testing, to check there isn't something
> > bash-specific hidden away, obviously]
> 
> True.  Unfortunately, I can't test it right now because I can't get
> DPDK to build on either Linux or FreeBSD, and I'm out of time to debug
> the build failures for now.  Would you like me to resubmit the patch,
> altered to use /bin/sh, without testing?
> 
> >
I'm not sure it's that important a change that we need to rush into
doing so.

What difficulties are you having getting DPDK to build? Is it just
platform setup issues?

/Bruce


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