On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 10:34 -0800, Doug Cutting wrote:
> Rod Taylor wrote:
> > Please don't do that.
> > 
> >         bash-2.05b$ ls  /bin/bash
> >         ls: /bin/bash: No such file or directory
> >         
> >         bash-2.05b$ uname -a
> >         FreeBSD home 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #13: Sat Nov  5
> >         00:19:49 EST 2005     [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HOME  
> > amd64
> >         
> >         bash-2.05b$ ls /bin/*sh
> >         /bin/csh        /bin/sh         /bin/tcsh
> 
> Yes, the script would have run before, but it wouldn't have worked 
> correctly.  Now it fails with a clear reason: it requires bash.  Perhaps 
> we should go farther and remove the bash dependency.  This change didn't 
> break anything that wasn't already broken, nor fix anything.  It simply 
> made the failure mode more clear.
> 
> The problem is that for 90% of the maintainers of this script, /bin/sh 
> is bash, so it is hard to ensure that the use of bash features does not 
> creep into it.  Is installing bash on FreeBSD onerous?  It is the 

It is installed but the path is /usr/local/bin/bash like any other user
installed package would be on FreeBSD.

-- 
Rod Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



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