Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage package bash?

2014-09-27 Thread kcrisman
If I recall correctly sometimes one needs to use dash instead of bash on Cygwin, but nonetheless it somehow works, maybe because dash is only necessary when going outside of Sage for rebasing or something? To be precise, /bin/bash is a genuine bash on Debian, /bin/sh points to /bin/dash

[sage-devel] Re: Sage package bash?

2014-09-26 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On 2014-09-26, Ivan Andrus darthand...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 26, 2014, at 7:59 AM, Dima Pasechnik dimp...@gmail.com wrote: From the noises I hear, in particular on our departamental email, sysadmins might be tempted to rm -f /bin/bash from any place they can get their hands on. It might

[sage-devel] Re: Sage package bash?

2014-09-26 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On 2014-09-26, William A Stein wst...@uw.edu wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 7:06 AM, John Cremona john.crem...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: On 26 September 2014 14:59, Dima Pasechnik dimp...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: From the noises I hear, in particular on our departamental email,

[sage-devel] Re: Sage package bash?

2014-09-26 Thread Jean-Pierre Flori
2. Dima -- do we specifically use bash features in the build scripts of Sage? Sage scripts have !/usr/bin/env bash all over the place. I don't know about 'bashisms' though - one should test on a Debian system, where bash is not essential, as they have a push to move to dash years

[sage-devel] Re: Sage package bash?

2014-09-26 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On 2014-09-26, Jean-Pierre Flori jpfl...@gmail.com wrote: 2. Dima -- do we specifically use bash features in the build scripts of Sage? Sage scripts have !/usr/bin/env bash all over the place. I don't know about 'bashisms' though - one should test on a Debian system, where bash is

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage package bash?

2014-09-26 Thread Thierry
Hi, On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 02:47:21PM +, Dima Pasechnik wrote: Sage scripts have !/usr/bin/env bash all over the place. I don't know about 'bashisms' though - one should test on a Debian system, where bash is not essential, as they have a push to move to dash years already on. (and so