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From: mark@elea.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP on FreeBSD???
Date: 21 Jun 1994 18:07:21 GMT
Organization: Zeno, IPST, University of Maryland
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In article <2u53jg$rrk@pdq.coe.montana.edu>,
Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote:
>>  I solved this problem by linking /bin/sh to /usr/local/bin/bash
>
>This is in general 'A Bad Thing' to do.  This really screws up the
>default build tools, and will bite you if you try to build the world
>with the BSD make tools.

In what way does it screw things up?  Are the build tools excersizing
some known bug in bash?