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On 1/14/10 7:59 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Vincent Rivière<vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>  writes:
>
>    
>> Mark Duckworth wrote:
>>      
>>> So in rpm there is a line like mkdir -p
>>> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/{bin,usr/bin,usr/man/man1}
>>>        
>> Beware this is a bashism.
>>      
> It's actually a cshism.
>
>    
>> In conclusion, this syntax should be used only if you are sure that the
>> script is executed by bash.
>>      
> Or csh :-)
>
> Andreas.
>
>    
On modern platforms (all of them) sh is just a symlink to bash.  My 
assumption is that this is implicitly required for an (rpm) build 
machine but I will not setup the packages this way as a user may want to 
save the memory.

Thanks,
Mark