[Buildroot] shell issues when /bin/sh is 'dash' instead of 'bash'

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 04:04:37PM -0700, Wade Berrier wrote:
> The result is that some files don't get installed into the target
> system when /bin/sh points to dash (like on recent ubuntu and debian?
> distros)
> 
> Attached is a patch to use CONFIG_SHELL.

Why aren't we setting SHELL=$(CONFIG_SHELL) somewhere, rather than using
$(CONFIG_SHELL) explicitly in each place? (And why do I have the feeling
we've had this discussion before?)

> Question: is this the best way to fix this?  Or maybe these packages
> should be fixed more in the style of how Jacmet fixed grep? (see
> http://sources.uclibc.org/index.py/trunk/buildroot/package/grep/grep.mk?r1=22930&r2=22931
> )

dash(1) on my system says -ot is supported anyway. If not perhaps it can
be expressed in a better way; I think that would be better than this
fix.

Besides is CONFIG_SHELL guaranteed to be bash anyway?



Happy new year.

Hamish
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