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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
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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
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