Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
On 28-Dec-2006, I successfully built, validated, and installed
gzip-1.3.9 on 20+ flavors of Unix in our local test lab.
I think I want your lab! :-) (I have access to a pretty wide range of
systems, but even counting major OS versions separately, I don't know if
I have 20.)
Today, I attempted to repeat this success with the new gzip-1.3.10,
but got failures like this on Sun Solaris 7 SPARC, SGI IRIX MIPS, DEC
Alpha OSF/1 systems:
./zdiff -c gzip.doc.gz gzip.doc.gz
diff: /dev/fd/3: Bad file number
The problem in each case is that the script begins with "#!/bin/bash",
but /bin/bash does not exist on two of those systems. The fallback
/bin/sh that is called to run the script does not understand /dev/fd/
devices. On the other system, Solaris 8, /bin/bash exists and is
version 2.03, which is apparently too old to recognize /dev/fd.
Ooh, ouch, that'll bite me too. '#!/bin/bash' is *not* safe; please
don't do that. :-) (If bash must be used to run these, I would say that
finding one in $PATH is required.)
--
Matthew
"But I want to cast Magic Missile!"
