Re: pgsql/src/bin/initdb Makefile initdb.sh

> Bruce Momjian - CVS <momjian(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> > Allow SHELL in Makefile.* to control initdb.
>
> Waste of time, Bruce. By my count, our distribution contains sixty-five
> other shell scripts with hard-wired "#! /bin/sh", most of which are not
> being passed through any autoconfiguration step. Foremost on the list
> is configure itself. It's going to be rather difficult to autoconfigure
> anything if /bin/sh doesn't work.
>
> I would suggest reverting this change, since there's no point in having
> initdb work differently from all our other shellscripts. I agree with
> Doug McNaught that any system where /bin/sh isn't a Bourne shell is
> not Unix.

Another issue is that initdb is already going through parameter
substitution, so it wasn't a big deal to fix it.

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