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Date:      Tue, 04 Apr 2006 11:38:43 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Jean-Baptiste Quenot <jbq@caraldi.com>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Wrong Bash dependency in devel/dbus
Message-ID:  <1144165123.18233.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060404093702.GG28452@vision.anyware>
References:  <20060404093702.GG28452@vision.anyware>

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On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 11:37 +0200, Jean-Baptiste Quenot wrote:
> Dear dbus maintainer,
>=20
> It seems like there is a wrong dependency on bash in devel/dbus:
>=20
> BUILD_DEPENDS?=3D bash:${PORTSDIR}/shells/bash
>=20
> That means bash anywhere in the PATH is OK, but it must be found
> under /usr/local/bin.  On my system /bin/bash is a link to
> /bin/sh.

This is horribly wrong.  You should not symlink over the FreeBSD Bourne
shell.  Creating a static /bin/bash might not be a bad idea, but
replacing a FreeBSD system utility is bound to cause you trouble.

Joe

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