Tim, I don't have any empirical evidence of what might befall you, but found these docs on google:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh And the wikipedia page had some helpful mentions of issues when Ubuntu went to dash in 6.1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Almquist_shell Dan H. Tim Wescott wrote: > I'm winding up on an embedded project that will use the Texas > Instruments LM3S811 embedded ARM processor. Some searching around on > the web shows me that there isn't much support to be found for the > gnu-arm tool set any more -- all of the web pages with dates are several > years old, and the ones without dates are all for building the tools > with the old versions. > > Whenever this situation is mentioned at all, links point to commercial > sites, including Codesourcery, which does an "open source" gnu tool set > -- but they sure don't publish their source very openly!!! > > So, I cave. I download their binary distribution of their "Codesourcery > lite", and I run it. I get the following message: > > t...@servo:~/Downloads$ ./arm-2009q3-67-arm-none-linux-gnueabi.bin > The installer has detected that your system uses the dash shell > as /bin/sh. This shell is not supported by the installer. > You can work around this problem by changing /bin/sh to be a > symbolic link to a supported shell such as bash. > For example, on Ubuntu systems, execute this shell command: > % sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow dash > Install as /bin/sh? No > Please refer to the Getting Started guide for more information, > or contact CodeSourcery Support for assistance. > t...@servo:~/Downloads$ > > Do I want to touch this? Is this going to screw up _other_ software > that may be looking for 'sh' to be a Dash shell command? Or am I fairly > safe playing with it? > > And do I want to just change the link manually, or do I want to use > dpgk-reconfigure as they suggest? > > Ooooh, I'm soooo confused. This is violating my implicit contract with > Ubuntu "Good training wheels" Linux. > > (I am, frankly, far more comfortable with the idea of doing my own > build, if only there were _real_ source available. Grr. Grump.) > > -- Daniel B. Herrington Director of Field Services Robert Mark Technologies [email protected] o: 651-769-2574 m: 503-358-8575 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
