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

[Rory Browne]

>  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!

Isn't saying one thing and meaning another, a bug in the software
world?


>  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.)

I think it might be that this script will work in either bash or ksh,
and most unices symlink to either bash or ksh, sh being the common
denomiter.