Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:28:12 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Khaled Hussein <khaled@palnet.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports upgrade Message-ID: <46A8E7BC.9040103@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <46A8E619.3050701@FreeBSD.org> References: <46A87CD7.90900@palnet.com> <46A8E619.3050701@FreeBSD.org>
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Doug Barton wrote:
> The other is to not use bash as your login shell, but rather to use
> sh, then have a .profile that starts bash if it's available:
>
> if [ -x /usr/local/bin/bash ]; then
> exec /usr/local/bin/bash --login
> fi
Hrrm, my actual .profile entry is more complicated than that, and I
just realized that I oversimplified it here. What you want to do is
also test to make sure that the bash you can find will run:
if [ -x /usr/local/bin/bash ]; then
if /usr/local/bin/bash --version >/dev/null 2>&1; then
exec /usr/local/bin/bash --login
fi
fi
otherwise you're stuck in the same boat by exec'ing something that's
going to fail because of the missing library.
Sorry for the confusion,
Doug
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