On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:41:32PM +1100, andrew clarke wrote: > Hi, > > With the recent problems involving the FreeBSD port of bash-4.0 got me > curious as to why the bash shell was installed at all on my system, as > it is not a standard component of FreeBSD. It turns out the only > software on my system that requires bash is AsciiDoc, as a run > dependency. Further investigation seems to indicate that it is only > used by the a2x script as supplied with AsciiDoc. However on my > system, a2x fails anyway: > > $ uname -a > FreeBSD blizzard.phoenix 6.4-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p1 #0: Sun > Dec 21 07:56:41 UTC 2008 > r...@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > $ pkg_info | grep asciidoc > asciidoc-8.3.5 A text document format for writing short documents and man > > $ a2x test.txt > readlink: illegal option -- f > usage: readlink [-n] [file ...] > a2x: failed: enhanced getopt(1) required
I know this wasn't the point of your post, but a2x works on my 7.1 box: - install readlink and getopt from the ports - make sure /usr/local/bin is before /usr/bin in your PATH - also install dblatex from the ports Steve > > Assuming this isn't a fault with bash-4.0, and assuming a2x is also > broken on FreeBSD 7.x, a short-term fix would be to not install a2x to > /usr/local/bin/a2x, then the run dependency on bash could be removed. > > Longer-term, given that AsciiDoc is primarily written in Python, it > seems odd to me that a2x isn't written in Python as well, which would > obviously permanently remove the run dependency on bash. > > Thanks, > > Regards > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ---end quoted text--- _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
