On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 02:38:29AM +0100, Thomas de Roo wrote: > Hello, > > The installation instructions on dash are followed by the suggestion to > make /bin/sh a symbolic link to dash. This is a really bad suggestion on > LFS, as it makes all the boot-scripts fail. (I just tried it on a newly > installed machine.) Maybe that info could be added too. > Colour me surprised - I thought the scripts (post LFS-7.0) were supposed to either be agnostic about what was used for /bin/sh, or else to use /bin/bash if they had bash-specific features. Having said that, I won't be surprised if any of the BLFS scripts I've touched turn out to break [ I cannot imagine why people think it is a good idea to build dash, but "your system, your rules" ].
But *all* of them fail with dash ? The pedant in me doubts that you installed _everything_, so please can you specify _which_ scripts fail if /bin/sh is a symlink to dash ? Or do you mean that all the *LFS* bootscripts fail ? ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
