[PATCH v2][BZ #832][BZ #3266] Make ldd try_trace more robust and portable

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> > I assume you mean that whoever commits this change (with corrections
> > I'll be posting soon) should add the bug numbers to NEWS?  Or should I
> > propose a new entry for NEWS documenting this change?
> 
> include in your patch the changes needed for NEWS.  at the top of it, you'll 
> find a list of bug numbers you should update.

Patch submissions should not include a diff to that list, just as the 
ChangeLog entries should not be included as diffs either: such diffs never 
apply cleanly.  It's for the committer to insert the ChangeLog entries at 
the start of the ChangeLog files and edit the list of fixed bugs in NEWS 
in the obvious way.

Now, hopefully the outcome of this patch series will be that at least ldd, 
maybe other installed scripts as well, becomes an sh script rather than a 
bash script, no longer needing "#! @BASH@" to force bash usage and usable 
on systems without bash.  *That* would merit its own NEWS entry, separate 
from the list of fixed bug numbers, which might reasonably be included in 
the submitted diffs.  But it also needs other fixes in this series, for 
$"" usage, so inclusion with this particular patch would be premature.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com