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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:11070 gnu.misc.discuss:15338 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!paris.ics.uci.edu!news.claremont.edu!bridge2!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP on FreeBSD??? Message-ID: <2u7p8g$6hc@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: 21 Jun 94 22:23:12 GMT References: <1994Jun13.040754.17764@kosman.uucp> <2tv1s5$jnn@news.demos.su> <2u53jg$rrk@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <2u7a8p$gt1@umd5.umd.edu> Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 29 NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <2u7a8p$gt1@umd5.umd.edu>, Mark Sienkiewicz <mark@elea.umd.edu> wrote: >In article <2u53jg$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? ??? I don't know, but folks who have replaced ash with bash have problems. It may be idio-syncracies in either ash or bash, but my advice still stands. Don't use bash to replace /bin/sh. And if you have problems with ash, fix them and we'll make sure that it gets back into the generic sources. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.