From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 26 2:35:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4403737B400 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 02:35:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:35:32 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 16fevv-00026l-00; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:34:07 +0000 Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:34:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: Mike Meyer , questions Subject: Re: Linux shell scripts In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25 Feb 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > On a practical level, how do you handle > ports and other software that requires Bash? Don't use the software? > Work with the maintainer to eliminate the need? Anecdotal evidence, but I found that the mysql people were very receptive to some small patches to "configure" with a _polite_ note to the effect, "/bin/sh isn't bash on every system". -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk __/\____/\_____/\____/|_____________________________________ flatline To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message