On Monday, March 11, 2019 at 10:06:59 AM UTC, E. Madison Bray wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:43 AM Jeroen Demeyer <j.de...@ugent.be 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > 
> > On 2019-03-11 10:42, E. Madison Bray wrote: 
> > > The spkg-install script (e.g. under 
> > > local/var/tmp/sage/build/patch-2.7.5/spkg-install) should start with a 
> > > shebang line like 
> > > 
> > > #!/usr/bin/env bash 
> > > 
> > > So that should already use the correct shell unless your `bash` is 
> > > actually something that is not bash-compatible. 
> > 
> > Could it be a very old version of bash? What's the output of 
> > 
> > bash --version 
>

by the way, there was an effort to allow dash be used as a default shell:
https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/23451
and here was a discussion of what happends on FreeBSD regarding shells:
https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/24491
 

>
> Could be. Apparently the += operator was not introduced until bash 
> 3.1, which came out in 2005.  That is quite old and not something I've 
> seen in a while, though not *that* old in bash terms :) 
>

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