On 10/27/2012 12:35 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
i can live with bash
OK, how about this?
From 6daf83cd406f0c5453d53a65d663e20668491381 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:54:13 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Have tzselect.ksh use Bash by default; this can be overridden.
* Makefile (KSHELL): New macro. (tzselect): Use it. * tzselect.ksh: Use "#!/bin/bash", not "#! /bin/ksh". The Makefile can override this. No need for a space after "!'; that was put in years ago only because of an urban legend. --- Makefile | 5 +++++ tzselect.ksh | 31 ++++++++++++------------------- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 8b539c1..c8150ba 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -238,6 +238,10 @@ ZIC= $(zic) $(ZFLAGS) # The name of a Posix-compliant `awk' on your system. AWK= awk +# The full path name of a Posix-compliant shell that supports the Korn shell's +# 'select' statement, as an extension. These days, Bash is the most popular. +KSHELL= /bin/bash + # The path where SGML DTDs are kept. # The default is appropriate for Ubuntu. SGML_TOPDIR= /usr @@ -389,6 +393,7 @@ date: $(DATEOBJS) tzselect: tzselect.ksh sed \ + -e 's|#!/bin/bash|#!$(KSHELL)|g' \ -e 's|AWK=[^}]*|AWK=$(AWK)|g' \ -e 's|TZDIR=[^}]*|TZDIR=$(TZDIR)|' \ -e 's|\(TZVERSION\)=.*|\1=tz$(VERSION)|' \ diff --git a/tzselect.ksh b/tzselect.ksh index 9e8ceea..4fe5d02 100644 --- a/tzselect.ksh +++ b/tzselect.ksh @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -#! /bin/ksh +#!/bin/bash TZVERSION=see_Makefile @@ -9,29 +9,22 @@ TZVERSION=see_Makefile # Porting notes: # -# This script requires several features of the Korn shell. -# If your host lacks the Korn shell, -# you can use either of the following free programs instead: -# -# <a href=ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/> -# Bourne-Again shell (bash) -# </a> +# This script requires a Posix-like shell with the extension of a +# 'select' statement. The 'select' statement was introduced in the +# Korn shell and is available in Bash and other shell implementations. +# If your host lacks both Bash and the Korn shell, you can get their +# source from one of these locations: # -# <a href=ftp://ftp.cs.mun.ca/pub/pdksh/pdksh.tar.gz> -# Public domain ksh -# </a> +# Bash <http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html> +# Korn Shell <http://www.kornshell.com/> +# Public Domain Korn Shell <http://www.cs.mun.ca/~michael/pdksh/> # # This script also uses several features of modern awk programs. -# If your host lacks awk, or has an old awk that does not conform to Posix.2, +# If your host lacks awk, or has an old awk that does not conform to Posix, # you can use either of the following free programs instead: # -# <a href=ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/> -# GNU awk (gawk) -# </a> -# -# <a href=ftp://ftp.whidbey.net/pub/brennan/> -# mawk -# </a> +# Gawk (GNU awk) <http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/> +# mawk <http://invisible-island.net/mawk/> # Specify default values for environment variables if they are unset. -- 1.7.9.5