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

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Mon May 17 16:51:41 UTC 2010


On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> wrote:
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> On 12-05-10 18:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
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>>   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.
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> 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.




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