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Issue 19451 - install.sh script assumes bash interpreter, but FreeBSD does not include bash by default
Summary: install.sh script assumes bash interpreter, but FreeBSD does not include bash...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: D
Classification: Unclassified
Component: installer (show other issues)
Version: D2
Hardware: All FreeBSD
: P4 enhancement
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Reported: 2018-11-29 23:28 UTC by n4jm4
Modified: 2022-12-17 10:31 UTC (History)
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Description n4jm4 2018-11-29 23:28:31 UTC 
The install.sh script referenced on:

* https://dlang.org/download.html
* https://dlang.org/dmd-freebsd.html

Uses a bash shebang, which does not work out of the box on many UNIX systems, such as FreeBSD, where bash is not installed by default.

Could we rewrite this script in pure POSIX sh, for a more portable UNIX installer?
Comment 1 Vladimir Panteleev 2020-11-27 18:46:07 UTC 
(In reply to andrew.pennebaker from comment #0)
> Could we rewrite this script in pure POSIX sh, for a more portable UNIX
> installer?

Unlikely, POSIX shell has much fewer features compared to bash, so this would make the script significantly more complicated and bug-prone.