-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Reuben Thomas on 3/11/2009 7:20 PM: > The manual says: > > "A few ancient 4.2BSD based systems (such as Dynix circa 1984) required > a single space between the `#!' and the `/'. However, these ancient > systems are no longer of practical concern." > > This is probably not actually correct. See detailed debunking of this > apparent myth at: > > http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/
Thanks. I will be pushing this soon, which simply deletes that text. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkm/kx4ACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCH3gCgjj2pYcE081p4C29nVCW4zjZH RocAoKgWHXmgP1Z5fqu7Iq95o8qFYRV9 =OvAx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>From 996eb0c086f82492d7623d5105abdd450812e460 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Blake <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:09:22 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Remove historical inaccuracy. * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Don't perpetuate myth about Reported by Reuben Thomas. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <[email protected]> --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ doc/autoconf.texi | 2 -- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 9435457..8f9cd54 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ 2009-03-17 Eric Blake <[email protected]> + Remove historical inaccuracy. + * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Don't perpetuate myth about + #!/bin/sh needing a space. + Reported by Reuben Thomas. + Recommend AS_HELP_STRING more prominently. * doc/autoconf.texi (External Software): Reduce mention of hand-written help strings. diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi index fe852fe..874d139 100644 --- a/doc/autoconf.texi +++ b/doc/autoconf.texi @@ -13691,8 +13691,6 @@ Portable Shell Some ancient systems have quite small limits on the length of the @samp{#!} line; for instance, 32 bytes (not including the newline) on SunOS 4. -A few ancient 4...@acronym{bsd} based systems (such as Dynix circa 1984) -required a single space between the @samp{#!} and the @samp{/}. However, these ancient systems are no longer of practical concern. The set of external programs you should run in a @command{configure} script -- 1.6.1.2
