Re: [gedit-list] Ubuntu 9.10 or gedit 2.28.0 kills external tools

[Jef Driesen <jefdriesen hotmail com>]

Doug McNutt wrote:
> Ubuntu newly upgraded to 9.10, gedit 2.28.0
>
> My tools don't work any more.
>
> [..]
>
> The error returned is:   "Could not execute command [Errno 8] Exec  format error"

I noticed this too! It seems that the "body" of an external tool needs 
to be a complete shell script. For instance if I try to create a tool 
which tries to execute a single command, like

make

it doesn't work. But if I specify

#!/bin/sh
make

it works for me.