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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!isgate!veda.is!adam From: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: cnews Message-ID: <C4yxnB.EFH@veda.is> Date: 4 Apr 93 16:54:46 GMT References: <1p0652Ejc9@uni-erlangen.de> <1993Mar28.001710.5222@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <BLYMN.93Mar30161725@mallee.awadi.com.au> Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland Lines: 20 blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) writes: >and when I tried to make install epoch it did not work, the make kept >dying on a weird shell error, as soon as I put sh back to the original >things worked fine. My philosophy is to put bash as sh only when I >need it. Makes good sense :-) Whatever scripts rely on /bin/sh to work can put '#!/foo/bash' on the top line. And if bash breaks something another shell can be tried instead. Has anyone tried compiling a minimalist bash that is small enough to be a real /bin/sh replacement? #ifndef BIN_SH /* or similar :-) */ .... #endif -- Adam David (adam@rhi.hi.is)