[Buildroot] [PATCH] build: fix umask test
Kurt Van Dijck
dev.kurt at vandijck-laurijssen.be
Tue May 31 09:35:37 UTC 2016
> >>>>> "Kurt" == Kurt Van Dijck <dev.kurt at vandijck-laurijssen.be> writes:
>
> >> >
> >> > I see, but how would that help when bash is not on the system?
> >> > Is bash a prerequisite?
> >>
> >> Yes, bash is a prerequisite. Some of our own scripts are bash scripts.
> >> Moreover, quite a few packages just assume that the shell is bash. Requiring
> >> bash and setting is as SHELL is the simplest way to handle that.
>
> > The Makefile only recommends /bin/bash, it falls back to 'sh' when bash
> > is not present.
>
> Yes, but support/dependencies/dependencies.sh checks for bash and bails
> out if not available.
I wasn't aware of this :-)
I already sent out a v2 of the patch which makes it shell-independant.
Kurt
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