build script problem

[Willem Ferguson]

On 04/06/2015 18:38, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> 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,
>
I have not quite managed to isolate this problem. It is some 
context-specific thing because all my other bash scripts that I tested 
run quite ok. I am not ruling out the possibility that this is an Ubuntu 
quirk. My Ubuntu is 14.04, a little aged and, as I indicated, I get some 
system error messages. Maybe time for update. Your discussion is 
interesting. Thanks.
Kind regards,
willem