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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is /bin/sh OK? Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 17:47:26 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 35 Message-ID: <325E882E.95F@www.play-hookey.com> References: <JOHN.96Oct10165658@burdell.ece.arizona.edu> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) John Galbraith wrote: > > I recently installed the 2.1.5-RELEASE. ( It went totally smoothly > over the network - nice! ) I went to compile some programs, but in > the process I noticed that many Makefiles and scripts that are run > when common programs (like xemacs) are built fail with really stupid > errors, like 'cd' fails to enter a directory that you know is there. > Remembering back (way back) to the 386bsd days, I remembered problems > with /bin/sh. I replaced my /bin/sh with a copy of bash, and sure > enough, everything built smoothly. I would have thought that this bug > was smunched long ago. Is this really the right thing to do, or is > something else hosed with my installation? > > Well - one thing is not so smooth. The system won't boot with /bin/sh > replaced with bash. I think it is because the shared libraries are > not yet available or something like that. Maybe a statically linked > bash would get around this, but it seems like I am hitting this > problem from the wrong angle. What is the deal with the stock /bin/sh? > > John > > BTW: I have been using Solaris-x86 for a while to do some java > consulting. That is over, so I immediately came back to FreeBSD. It > is great to be back, everyone should know. I found Solaris-x86 to be > a truly miserable hack and lots of things don't work right > (like gdb...). I guess I was totally spoiled after several years of > using FreeBSD. man chpass. You can do 'chpass -s bash' to change your own shell. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |