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From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] shell issues when /bin/sh is 'dash' instead of 'bash'
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:53:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aba6yvzg.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901041650200.26118@xanadu.home> (Nicolas Pitre's message of "Sun\, 04 Jan 2009 16\:53\:41 -0500 \(EST\)")

>>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

Hi,

 >> dash(1) on my system says -ot is supported anyway. If not perhaps it can
 >> be expressed in a better way; I think that would be better than this
 >> fix.

 Nicolas> There are other places where brace expansion is used for arguments to 
 Nicolas> patch-kernel.sh, and dash doesn't supports that.  You end up with a 
 Nicolas> kernel missing appropriate patches, etc.

Exactly. The best way forward is imho to always use bash like what
current svn is doing.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

      reply	other threads:[~2009-01-05  8:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-31 23:04 [Buildroot] shell issues when /bin/sh is 'dash' instead of 'bash' Wade Berrier
2009-01-01  2:36 ` Hamish Moffatt
2009-01-01 14:40   ` Wade Berrier
2009-01-01 20:43   ` Peter Korsgaard
2009-01-04 21:53   ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-01-05  8:53     ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]

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