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From: gowen@presto.cs.tufts.edu (Gregory Owen)
Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP on FreeBSD???
In-Reply-To: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu's message of 20 Jun 1994 22:01:20 GMT
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>>>>> "Nate" == Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> writes:
> Max Klochkov <max@dream.demos.su> 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.
...Not to mention what happens when your /usr partition won't
mount and you need to do a manual fsck ... from the shell.
And on machines with dynamic libs, /bin/sh should be
statically linked, etc. etc.
But I understand the sentiment of wanting to do it 8)
Greg Owen { gowen@cs.tufts.edu,@xis.xerox.com } http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~gowen/
1.01 GCS/GO d++ p+ c++ l++ u++ e+ -m+ s++/- n- h !(f)? g+ -w+ t+ r-- y?
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