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+?RCS: $Id$
+?RCS:
+?RCS: Copyright (c) 1991-1997, 2004-2006, Raphael Manfredi
+?RCS:
+?RCS: You may redistribute only under the terms of the Artistic License,
+?RCS: as specified in the README file that comes with the distribution.
+?RCS: You may reuse parts of this distribution only within the terms of
+?RCS: that same Artistic License; a copy of which may be found at the root
+?RCS: of the source tree for dist 4.0.
+?RCS:
+?RCS: $Log: startsh.U,v $
+?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.1 1997/02/28 16:25:31 ram
+?RCS: patch61: avoid needless chatter since this is now done very early
+?RCS:
+?RCS: Revision 3.0 1993/08/18 12:09:51 ram
+?RCS: Baseline for dist 3.0 netwide release.
+?RCS:
+?MAKE:startsh: sh sharpbang eunicefix
+?MAKE: -pick add $@ %<
+?S:startsh:
+?S: This variable contains the string to put on the front of a shell
+?S: script to make sure (hopefully) that it runs with sh and not some
+?S: other shell.
+?S:.
+?F:!sharp
+: figure out how to guarantee sh startup
+?X: Avoid needless chatter since this is now done very early.
+?X: echo " "
+?X: echo "Checking out how to guarantee sh startup..." >&2
+case "$startsh" in
+'') startsh=${sharpbang}${sh} ;;
+*)
+?X: echo "Let's see if '$startsh' works..." ;;
+esac
+cat >sharp <<EOSS
+$startsh
+set abc
+test "$?abc" != 1
+EOSS
+
+chmod +x sharp
+$eunicefix sharp
+if ./sharp; then
+ : echo "Yup, it does."
+else
+ echo "Hmm... '$startsh' does not guarantee sh startup..."
+ echo "You may have to fix up the shell scripts to make sure $sh runs them."
+fi
+rm -f sharp
+