Re: [lfs-dev] [blfs-support] sh -> dash symbolic link

2013-01-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Thomas de Roo wrote: > >> OK, so I checked again. I issued >> >> cd /bin >> ln -s dash sh >> >> and rebooted. A lot of the bootscripts fail, both LFS and BLFS, from >> blfs-bootscripts-20120828 and lfs-bootscripts-20121013. So I

Re: Is there a specific reason why dash and mawk isn't supported?

2011-05-05 Thread Nathan Coulson
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Andrew Benton wrote: > On Thu, 5 May 2011 22:19:58 +0200 > Erik Blomqvist wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I hope this is the right mailing list for this question. If nothing else > you > > seem to be the right people to ask. > &

Re: Is there a specific reason why dash and mawk isn't supported?

2011-05-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Erik Blomqvist wrote: > Hi, > > I hope this is the right mailing list for this question. If nothing else you > seem to be the right people to ask. > > Considering that dash and mawk are smaller and faster than bash and gawk I > was a bit surprised to find that LFS doesn

Re: Is there a specific reason why dash and mawk isn't supported?

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 5 May 2011 22:19:58 +0200 Erik Blomqvist wrote: > Hi, > > I hope this is the right mailing list for this question. If nothing else you > seem to be the right people to ask. > > Considering that dash and mawk are smaller and faster than bash and gawk I > was a bit s

Re: Is there a specific reason why dash and mawk isn't supported?

2011-05-05 Thread Zachary Kotlarek
On May 5, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Erik Blomqvist wrote: > Hi, > > I hope this is the right mailing list for this question. If nothing else you > seem to be the right people to ask. > > Considering that dash and mawk are smaller and faster than bash and gawk I > was a bit surpr

Is there a specific reason why dash and mawk isn't supported?

2011-05-05 Thread Erik Blomqvist
Hi, I hope this is the right mailing list for this question. If nothing else you seem to be the right people to ask. Considering that dash and mawk are smaller and faster than bash and gawk I was a bit surprised to find that LFS doesn't support them. Even Ubuntu, that is a huge distributi

Re: Coreutils i18n patch prevents dash from building

2009-08-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
uess, >>> for now, BLFS could have a patch to dash to add LC_COLLATE=C to the > other >>> call to sort in src/mkbuiltins. >> >> Yeah, I'd send that upstream and cc Herbert Xu. > > Only one problem, it still doesn't help! The problem is that LANG,

Re: Coreutils i18n patch prevents dash from building

2009-08-15 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 09:54:33AM -0600, Matthew Burgess wrote: > Ah, it does, but only on an earlier invocation of sort! So, I guess, for > now, BLFS could have a patch to dash to add LC_COLLATE=C to the other > call to sort in src/mkbuiltins. > > Longer-term though, we certai

Re: Coreutils i18n patch prevents dash from building

2009-08-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:04:44 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Matthew > Burgess wrote: >> >> Ah, it does, but only on an earlier invocation of sort!  So, I guess, >> for now, BLFS could have a patch to dash to add LC_COLLATE=C to the othe

Re: Coreutils i18n patch prevents dash from building

2009-08-15 Thread Dan Nicholson
n >>> patch for Coreutils causes a problem during compilation of >>> Dash in BLFS.  The attached builtins file produces the following >>> output when we compile Coreutils with the i18n patch: >>> >>> $ LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 >>> $ sort -u -k 3,3 builtin

Re: Coreutils i18n patch prevents dash from building

2009-08-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:13:38 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Matthew > Burgess wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Following a thread on blfs-support[0], it looks like the i18n >> patch for Coreutils causes a problem during compilation of >>

Re: Coreutils i18n patch prevents dash from building

2009-08-15 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Matthew Burgess wrote: > Hi, > > Following a thread on blfs-support[0], it looks like the i18n > patch for Coreutils causes a problem during compilation of > Dash in BLFS.  The attached builtins file produces the following > output when we comp

Coreutils i18n patch prevents dash from building

2009-08-15 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi, Following a thread on blfs-support[0], it looks like the i18n patch for Coreutils causes a problem during compilation of Dash in BLFS. The attached builtins file produces the following output when we compile Coreutils with the i18n patch: $ LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 $ sort -u -k 3,3 builtins 0

Re: Dash, Bash, and other musings

2009-03-23 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
we want to change standards towards a directions then we have go to their lists and trying to convince them. They are pretty conservative people, if you leave out Urlich Drepper. > As I understand it, dash is not a bash replacement, but rather an sh > replacement. Its not a replace

Dash, Bash, and other musings

2009-03-23 Thread Archaic
g flavors of UNIX, but this is also politically motivated. As I understand it, dash is not a bash replacement, but rather an sh replacement. For those of you who have a distro that attempts (either by asking or not) to install dash as sh, what is the default interactive shell? *If* dash is not mean

Re: Dash tarball links

2007-03-23 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/23/07, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 03/23/07 18:20 CST: > > On 3/23/07, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I don't see an issue. Perhaps a short sentence (in para form) after > >> the "Package Information" bullets noting the differe

Re: Dash tarball links

2007-03-23 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 03/23/07 18:20 CST: > On 3/23/07, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I don't see an issue. Perhaps a short sentence (in para form) after >> the "Package Information" bullets noting the difference in the name, >> though they are the same files. > > As lo

Re: Dash tarball links

2007-03-23 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/23/07, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't see an issue. Perhaps a short sentence (in para form) after > the "Package Information" bullets noting the difference in the name, > though they are the same files. As long as you don't see an issue, I don't feel like cluttering up

Re: Dash.

2007-03-16 Thread Dan Nicholson
prefer not to do the LC_ALL=C thing in patch, though. If > > it must be a patch, it would have to be a separate one. > > There are ~8 commits upstream since 0.5.3. Most of them are bug fixes > that we might want, but some seem like they are trivial corner cases. > Ubuntu only applies

Re: Dash.

2007-03-16 Thread Dan Nicholson
. There are ~8 commits upstream since 0.5.3. Most of them are bug fixes that we might want, but some seem like they are trivial corner cases. Ubuntu only applies two of the commits, and they use dash as /bin/sh. One of the commits is to add libedit support, which requires the autotools be regene