Re: FTBFS when /bin is before /usr/bin in PATH?

[Matthias Urlichs]

On 07.05.25 12:00, Santiago Vila wrote:

For example, some configure script might look in
the PATH and decide that sh is in /usr/bin and ship shell scripts
as #!/usr/bin/sh.

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That's not a problem, because today's default (according to my /etc/login.defs) is "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin" (plus /sbin for root, plus …/games for non-root), i.e. with the symlinks last. Thus, if anything does do this it'll go splat whether or not we remove ":/bin" from our PATH.

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