This maybe a futile question, but not much to lose here so I'm still asking: should we let the autotools change the path of the interpreter in the shabang of the different scripts? (See makepkg and so on.) Actually, according to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Bash_Coding_Style it is said that the interpreter should be /bin/bash, not /usr/bin/bash. The latter being far less common. Note that the source files are properly set to /bin/*, only the autotools change them to the realpath of the build system. This is really a minor issue, but I believe that switching it back to /bin/bash would remove one portability problem for most systems. For instance, to run makepkg on a non-Arch system, we download the 'pacman' binary package first, from which we extract the 'makepkg' and the 'makepkg.conf' files. Since the package was built on an Arch system, the shabang is set to /usr/bin/bash. On non-Arch system, we usually need to make to change the shabang back to /bin/bash. What do you think? -- Pierre Neidhardt Oh, get ahold of yourself. Nobody's proposing that we parse English. -- Larry Wall in <199709032332.QAA21669@wall.org>