Re: [jamboost] Remove "whence" from build.sh

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-21 22:16:37

Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The "whence" command is not available on all Unix variants,

You mean all "shells" not "Unix variants".

> so I suggest that it be replace by "type"
> which is builtin for the /bin/sh shell.

"whence" *is* a builtin for bourne shell. You must mean that it's not a 
builtin for bash.

> This will get rid of error messages that build.sh prints out
> when I build bjam on Linux and FreeBSD.

OK, I never got warnings on RedHat, so I guess it has a real bourne 
shell (or something closer to a real one) instead of a symlink from "sh" 
to "bash".

Sorry but I can't apply the patch as it's going to break other Unix like 
systems, like OpenBSD and Solaris. Is there some way to check that the 
shell isn't really a bourne shell but a bash shell?

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