On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 20:54 +0100, Lourens Veen wrote: > Dieter schrieb: > > I would be very delighted if the world would just stop that. > > Ubuntu isn't evil and linking /bin/sh to dash isn't evil.
> That's on a standard Ubuntu 6.06 LTS install (I'm not sure where the > claim on Wikipedia comes from). The next version, Edgy Eft, does use dash for /bin/sh (the POSIX shell). As far as I know there are some small incompatibilities between dash and the POSIX shell standard but only in some very extreme corner cases. There are similar (but different) small incompatibilities in all the other shells. The problem here seems to be that the installer claims to require a POSIX shell but uses some bash extensions. (I have contributed some code to the autopackage project where the installer is a HUGE (POSIX) shell script -- one of the things I did was to remove some of the bashisms that had crept in.) Florian Zeitz seems to know what is going on. I would second his suggestion to use "bash ./script.sh" -- or set SHELL or even temporarily move the /bin/sh symlink to point to bash instead of dash. I think 'update-alternatives' is the proper way to change such symlinks on debian-derived distributions but it is unfortunately too complicated for me... :/ -Peter _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
