build script problem

[Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn]

 On Thu, 4 Jun 2015, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> > On Jun 4, 2015, at 12:14 AM, Willem Ferguson <willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za> wrote:
> >
> > I get this:
> >
> > src$ sh subsurface/scripts/build.sh
> > exec 1> >(tee build.log) 2>&1
> > subsurface/scripts/build.sh: 21: subsurface/scripts/build.sh: Syntax error: redirection unexpected
> >
> > Am I only half awake again? (Arrived from Tanzania at 3 am this
> > morning, so only 2 brain cells firing)
>
> Let me guess. You're running this on one of those silly distributions
> where sh is not bash?

Now, really...  Why do you state that?  _That's_ silly.  `man 1 bash':

,----
| BUGS
| 	It's too big and too slow.
|
| 	There are some subtle differences between bash and traditional
| 	versions of sh, mostly because of the POSIX specification.
|
| 	Aliases are confusing in some uses.
|
| 	Shell builtin commands and functions are not stoppable/restartable.
|
| 	Compound commands and command sequences of the form `a ; b ; c' are
| 	not handled gracefully when process suspension is attempted.  When a
| 	process is stopped, the shell immediately executes the next command
| 	in the sequence. It suffices to place the sequence of commands between
| 	parentheses to force it into a subshell, which may be stopped as a
| 	unit.
|
| 	Array variables may not (yet) be exported.
|
| 	There may be only one active coprocess at a time.
`----

You stuck bash on the shebang line.  Such error can only happen if
/bin/bash is a symlink to some other shell, I guess.  Is that the
case?


Cheers,

-- 
Cristian