[ILUG] Libraries problem prevent installation of Maple 10 for linux

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 23:32:52 +0000
  | From: "Rory Browne" <rbmlist at gmail.com>
  | 
  |[ ... ] if the #! line says /bin/sh, then any bourne
  | compatible shell should suffice.  If not then [maybe]
  | a bug report would be in order.

 if the script's authur wrote ‘#!/bin/sh’ then yes,
 the author _said_ any Bourne(/POSIX?)-ish shell should
 work.   but _saying_ that, and _meaning_ that, or even
 realising that that is what saying that means, are
 very different things!  I've seen far too many scripts
 which are clearly specific to bash(1) that start that
 way ....  I'm guessing because /bin/sh being a link
 to ‘bash’ is(? was?) fairly common, and (not guessing
 here) far too many script authors have no idea what
 they are doing.   (plus, of course, there's always just
 the simple mistake.)

cheers!
	-blf-
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