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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:44:38 +0100
> 
> I think that moving up the loading of config.site and using
> CONFIG_SHELL is probably a better option; I'll try to get that done.

Fixing this in Autoconf is the best alternative, since it means that
old versions of Bash will continue to work.

> I must say I don't see how any of this breaks bash - in fact, it would
> eliminate one breakage.

The handling of #! is not in Bash, it's in the library.  So we would
be affecting much more than just Bash.

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