From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Reese Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:11:08 -0500 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot on Ubuntu 6.10 Message-ID: <45512EAC.9030703@indianaheart.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greetings: Just a warning to the buildroot users. The newest Ubuntu (6.10 - released 10/26) has modified /bin/sh. In previous versions /bin/sh was a link to bash. In the newest version it is a link to dash, a smaller, limited function shell based on bash that Debian developed to use on their boot floppies. Dash is missing a lot of functionality that bash contains, and I've been having a lot of trouble building using it. Ubuntu's claim is that dash is a POSIX shell and that if you needed the additional functionality of bash, you should have used #!/bin/bash instead of #!/bin/sh as the header in your script. In any event, just changing the /bin/sh link from dash to bash fixed all of my problems with no noticeable problems on the workstation. If you're having problems building on a Ubuntu 6.10 system, that's a good place to start. - -Scott Reese -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFUS6sS7FYdPX6+iYRAsR1AJoCEPiyV44Jg8DuMT6enNMDOcc2lgCfSpCf +rUBnQADY6gIzTS4n1seeq4= =BroF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----