[Buildroot] Buildroot on Ubuntu 6.10

[Ashwin Bihari]

On 11/7/06, Scott Reese <sreese at indianaheart.org> wrote:
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> Greetings:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> - -Scott Reese
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I think a lot of people who write scripts have gotten used to the fact that
/bin/sh -> /bin/bash and assume that that's how it's going to be in all
systems. It isn't a bad idea to explicitly add #!/bin/bash if you wish to
use BASH functionality.

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~ Ashwin
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