Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "Thrift Wiki" for change notification.
The following page has been changed by MarcoMolteni: http://wiki.apache.org/thrift/GettingUbuntuPackages The comment on the change is: fix my previous erroneus assumption on THRIFT-208 and ubuntu 8.10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ == Ubuntu 8.10 and configure == - Thrift's {{{configure}}} script assumes that {{{/bin/sh}}} is actually {{{/bin/bash}}}. Since on Ubuntu 8.10 {{{/bin/sh}}} is {{{/bin/dash}}}, the {{{configure}}} script fails. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-208 for more details. Note that the patch associated to 208 doesn't solve completely the problem. + '''Note''' If you are using thrift from subversion/git after 2008-12-22, this issue is resolved. + + Before [https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-208 THRIFT-208], Thrift's {{{configure}}} script assumes that {{{/bin/sh}}} is actually {{{/bin/bash}}}. Since on Ubuntu 8.10 {{{/bin/sh}}} is {{{/bin/dash}}}, the {{{configure}}} script fails. There are two possible workarounds:
