On 05/05/2010 07:33 AM, Simon Geard wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 07:54 +0530, gaurav k wrote: >> I have not deviated from the book at all, the only possible difference >> might be any differences in the host system requirement. For >> example, /bin/sh is not a symlink to bash, but I've only used bash >> throughout. > > That *is* a deviation - you might be typing your commands into a bash > shell personally, but scripts you run from there will be using /bin/sh. > In theory programs using /bin/sh shouldn't use bash-specific features, > but in practice, many do. > > Simon. >
Then those that do should be considered buggy and must be fixed. Personally I think that requiring /bin/sh -> bash is pointless, and that if there are any packages that have /bin/sh while using Bash features those packages should be corrected...but then I seem to be alone on this... -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
