On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 13:23 +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Rob Landley <r...@landley.net> wrote:
> > On Thursday 13 May 2010 18:05:53 Peter Tyser wrote:
> >> Using 'read' without a variable is not supported in many shells.  Lines
> >> such as 'while read; do' in gen_build_files.sh would result in build
> >> failures when using sh or dash as an interpreter:
> >
> > Simple fix: say #!/bin/bash at the top of all shell scripts, always.
> 
> Please no. Please let it be possible to build busybox with the busybox tools.

It's (obviously) not possible now if bash isn't installed.
So the above makes it at least work for Debian-esque people with a bash
installed.

> Busybox ash handles most shell scripts just fine. Please don't force
> us to install the slow bloaty bash to bootstrap a busybox system.
> Please.

Care to provide patches solving problems?!

        Bernd
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Bernd Petrovitsch                  Email : be...@petrovitsch.priv.at
                     LUGA : http://www.luga.at

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