From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 28 4:29:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.erols.com (smtp2.erols.com [207.172.3.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFF4D14D2D for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 04:29:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (207-172-143-89.s26.as1.hgt.md.dialup.rcn.com [207.172.143.89]) by smtp2.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA20823; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 07:28:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199907281128.HAA20823@smtp2.erols.com> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990728051209.6291815444@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 07:27:27 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Craig Harding Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Cc: Terry Lambert , chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 28-Jul-99 Craig Harding wrote: > Terry Lambert wrote: > >> Speaking for myself, it's because people who don't know better >> depend upon its features, rendering shell scripts non-portable. >> >> In order to run these scripts, you have to install bash. >> >> In order to do that, you have to run "configure". >> >> In order to do that, you have to install GNU "make". > > You must be doing it the hard way, Terry. I usually find: > > $ cd /usr/ports/shells/bash2 > $ make install > > works fine. His point is more general than FreeBSD. Digital UNIX doesn't have a ports system for example. Thus, in order to install bash on Digital UNIX, you do have to do that extra couple of steps that you might not have to do with csh or tcsh or whatnot. --- John Baldwin -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message