[MPlayer-dev-eng] RE: gmake fails if I use --language=de

[Diego Biurrun]

Gansser, Martin writes:
 > From: Tobias Diedrich [mailto:ranma at gmx.at]
 > > 
 > > Gansser, Martin wrote:
 > > 
 > > > I tried to compile the last CVS Snapshot MPlayer-20030829.tar.bz2
 > > > on hpux 11.00 but gmake fails, if i use:
 > > [broken help_mp.h]
 > > > contents of help_mp.h
 > > > 
 > > > //
 > > > // WARNING! This is a generated file. Do NOT edit.
 > > > // See the help/ subdir for the editable files.
 > > > //
 > > 
 > > Parts of help_mp.h are generated by help/help_diff.sh .
 > > I suggest you have a look at that one, maybe it uses some bashism that
 > > your /bin/sh does not support. Does it work if you replace "#!/bin/sh"
 > > by "#!/bin/bash" in said script?
 > 
 > ok, my favorite shell on hpux is csh,

Ugh ;-)

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/

 >  but with bash it works now.
 > 
 > I replaced also the line "#!/bin/sh" by "#!/bin/bash" in help/help_diff.sh

It does not work with ash or tcsh either, but it does work with zsh.
Maybe we should change this to #!/bin/bash as it has been at some
point in the past.  Any objections?

Diego