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

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 8:50 PM Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 1/20/26 3:54 PM, Gary Guo wrote:
> >> [...]
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> >> 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:
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> > 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...
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> That's my blunder then.
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> I'll send a patch tomorrow to make gen-btf.sh runnable with /bin/sh

Isn't the current patch enough?
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash

I don't think all kernel build scripts are pure 'sh'.