[OpenBIOS] Allow building on Mac OS X

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 14/04/15 14:05, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 12:39:09AM -0400, Programmingkid wrote:
>> Come on people, switch to bash. It's better. What would we miss if we did switch to bash?
> 
> bash is a better interactive shell.  It is also _much_ slower at starting
> than dash, so as a shell for scripts, performance is noticeably better
> with dash as long as your scripts don't require bash features (most don't,
> but some legitimately do use some of bash's advanced features).
> 
> Switching from bash to dash as /bin/sh knocked 15 seconds off the boot
> time of an embedded system I work on.
> 
> But yes nothing wrong with using bash features as long as you explicitly
> state your script wants /bin/bash, not /bin/sh.

I would like to preserve the use of !/bin/sh where possible - I can't
get too excited about forcing a user to have a specific shell installed.


ATB,

Mark.