on ubuntu 10.04, how to reset /bin/sh to refer to bash?

on ubuntu 10.04, how to reset /bin/sh to refer to bash?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  my first time setting up to build OE on ubuntu 10.04, and trying to
"bitbake fetch" complains that it's a bad idea for /bin/sh to refer to
dash.  fair enough, so since /bin/sh -> dash, do i just reset the
symlink manually?  or is there something more elegant?  thanks.

rday

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Re: on ubuntu 10.04, how to reset /bin/sh to refer to bash?

[Dmitry Ivanov]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>  my first time setting up to build OE on ubuntu 10.04, and trying to
> "bitbake fetch" complains that it's a bad idea for /bin/sh to refer to
> dash.  fair enough, so since /bin/sh -> dash, do i just reset the
> symlink manually?  or is there something more elegant?  thanks.
>

See http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/OEandYourDistro#Ubuntu.

its as simple as sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash
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Re: on ubuntu 10.04, how to reset /bin/sh to refer to bash?

[John Connolly]

----- "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:

> my first time setting up to build OE on ubuntu 10.04, and trying to
> "bitbake fetch" complains that it's a bad idea for /bin/sh to refer
> to
> dash.  fair enough, so since /bin/sh -> dash, do i just reset the
> symlink manually?  or is there something more elegant? 

Elegant: Sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash.  Choose no.

 thanks.
> 
> rday
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Re: on ubuntu 10.04, how to reset /bin/sh to refer to bash?

[Koen Kooi]

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On 12-05-10 18:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   my first time setting up to build OE on ubuntu 10.04, and trying to
> "bitbake fetch" complains that it's a bad idea for /bin/sh to refer to
> dash.  fair enough, so since /bin/sh -> dash, do i just reset the
> symlink manually?  or is there something more elegant?  thanks.

And for the record: It's not OE (anymore) that requires bash, it's the
software we build. E.g. GTK+'s libtool has bashisms. And there are a lot
more.

regards,

Koen
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Re: on ubuntu 10.04, how to reset /bin/sh to refer to bash?

[Marc Olzheim]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 09:58:04AM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> On 12-05-10 18:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   my first time setting up to build OE on ubuntu 10.04, and trying to
> > "bitbake fetch" complains that it's a bad idea for /bin/sh to refer to
> > dash.  fair enough, so since /bin/sh -> dash, do i just reset the
> > symlink manually?  or is there something more elegant?  thanks.
> 
> And for the record: It's not OE (anymore) that requires bash, it's the
> software we build. E.g. GTK+'s libtool has bashisms. And there are a lot
> more.

Exactly. So depending on what you want to build, you can get away with
dash as /bin/sh fine. We've been using the patch in
http://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/914/ successfully for some time
now, but we do not need any GTK+ stuff on our images.

Marc

Re: on ubuntu 10.04, how to reset /bin/sh to refer to bash?

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl> wrote:
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> On 12-05-10 18:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>>   my first time setting up to build OE on ubuntu 10.04, and trying to
>> "bitbake fetch" complains that it's a bad idea for /bin/sh to refer to
>> dash.  fair enough, so since /bin/sh -> dash, do i just reset the
>> symlink manually?  or is there something more elegant?  thanks.
>
> And for the record: It's not OE (anymore) that requires bash, it's the
> software we build. E.g. GTK+'s libtool has bashisms. And there are a lot
> more.

I wonder how debian/ubuntu build them. I assume they should be using
dash as default
shell as well.