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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:11080 gnu.misc.discuss:15344 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!news.nic.surfnet.nl!tuegate.tue.nl!news.win.tue.nl!wzv.win.tue.nl!gvr.win.tue.nl!guido From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP on FreeBSD??? Date: 23 Jun 1994 21:17:57 GMT Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 26 Message-ID: <2ucu65$nmg@wzv.win.tue.nl> References: <1994Jun13.040754.17764@kosman.uucp> <2tv1s5$jnn@news.demos.su> <2u53jg$rrk@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <2u7a8p$gt1@umd5.umd.edu> <2u7p8g$6hc@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gvr.win.tue.nl nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >>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. One of the reasons it broke was that bash defines teh PWD environment variable. The Bourne sheel does not. This is fixed in current but there is at least one other place where it breaks; I just don't remember anymore where that was, as I gave up with bash. >Nate -Guido -- Guido van Rooij | Internet: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl Bisschopsmolen 16 | Phone: ++31.40.461433 5612 DS Eindhoven | ((12+144+20)+3*sqrt(4))/7 The Netherlands | +(5*11)=9^2+0