30 Oct
2012
30 Oct
'12
6:50 p.m.
On Tue 30 Oct 2012, Hans Hagen wrote:
FWIW, Debian and Ubuntu have a package ‘devscripts’ which includes a program ‘checkbashisms’ to catch such things (Ubuntu started using dash as the default sh back in 2006). Ubuntu also has some advice
hm, so i wonder why setuptex fails on that box then (not that i care much as i can set the path)
I was briefly confused as to why I (and other Ubuntu users) have never had a problem with setuptex... then I remembered that while sh links to dash (because it's fast), bash is still used explicitly as the default *login* shell (because it's featureful). So ‘source setuptex’ has always worked for me but would presumably give trouble in a non-login shell. Don't know how Debian does it. Pont