Re: [PATCH] scripts/gen-btf.sh: fix shebang for NixOS

[Ihor Solodrai]

On 1/20/26 3:54 PM, Gary Guo wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> So it's trivial to put $(CONFIG_SHELL) in front of it. But then it
>> must be migrated to #!/bin/sh, right?
> 
> Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst says:
> 
> Make rules may invoke scripts to build the kernel. The rules shall
> always provide the appropriate interpreter to execute the script. They
> shall not rely on the execute bits being set, and shall not invoke the
> script directly. For the convenience of manual script invocation, such
> as invoking ./scripts/checkpatch.pl, it is recommended to set execute
> bits on the scripts nonetheless.
> 
> Kbuild provides variables $(CONFIG_SHELL), $(AWK), $(PERL),
> and $(PYTHON3) to refer to interpreters for the respective
> scripts.
> 
> So I suppose it would need to migate to POSIX shell...

That's my blunder then.

I'll send a patch tomorrow to make gen-btf.sh runnable with /bin/sh

> 
> Best,
> Gary