Patch to work around sh(1) problem in FreeBSD 8.0

Gedare Bloom gedare at gwmail.gwu.edu
Sat May 8 17:32:22 UTC 2010


FWIW, ubuntu sometimes breaks too, its /bin/sh is dash, which is a
slightly lighter-weight bash.

I change my symlink so that my ubuntu uses bash instead.  I haven't
noticed problems...yet :)

-Gedare

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Peer Stritzinger <peerst at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Ralf
> Corsepius <ralf.corsepius at rtems.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 05/07/2010 07:50 PM, Peer Stritzinger wrote:
>>>
>>> I found a problem with FreeBSD 8.0's /bin/sh that prevents building
>>> rtems.
>>
>> Which shell is it?
>>
>> Is it ksh?
>
> No, just FreeBSD's own POSIX compatible shell.
> From man sh(1):
> "This version of sh was rewritten in 1989 under the BSD license after the
>      Bourne shell from AT&T System V Release 4 UNIX."
> -- Peer
>
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