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SubjectRe: Patch for Menuconfig script

Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> wrote:

> The #! line is irrelevant. The script is invoked via
>
> $(CONFIG_SHELL) scripts/Menuconfig arch/$(ARCH)/config.in
>
> Large chunks of kbuild assume that CONFIG_SHELL is bash. Don't bother
> trying to cleanup all the code that assumes bash, just
> make CONFIG_SHELL=/path/to/bash ...

I personaly don't think it should be assumed that every systems even has bash installed, but instead that every systems have a POSIX compilant sh.

In other words, without cleanups, someone who want to execute that script would be "forced" to install bash.

-Evan
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