On 01/22/13 18:32, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Thomas de Roo wrote: >> >>> OK, so I checked again. I issued >>> >>> cd /bin >>> ln -s dash sh >>> >>> and rebooted. A lot of the bootscripts fail, both LFS and BLFS, from >>> blfs-bootscripts-20120828 and lfs-bootscripts-20121013. So I suspect >>> /lib/services/init-functions. For the log, see >>> http://pastebin.com/k0b3RiD6. >> OK, I'll take a closer look. A reboot should not be required though. >> Just running one of the scripts should duplicate the problem. I can't >> look tonight, but I'll look tomorrow. > This impacts lfs too so I'm copying the lfs-dev list. > > There are a couple of issues with dash and the lfs bootscripts. > > First, dash does not like the construct: > > local logmessage=`echo "${@}" | sed 's/\\\033[^a-zA-Z]*.//g'` > > That's easy enough to fix by removing local. There are 5 instances of > this, and the local part is not really required by the code logic. > > The other issue is that dash has a built-in echo command that is > different from both bash and /bin/echo. The -e parameter is not > recognized. This doesn't stop the script but does result in an > unintended "-e" being printed. > > I tried specifying init-functions with /bin/bash, but that's ignored > when the calling script is dash. > > There are 21 places in the init-functions that use echo -e, so I suppose > we could to prepend /bin/ to these echo commands, but is more overhead. > That overhead may be negligible though. > > These scripts have been working since about September 2011 (16 months) > and this is the first complaint. > > I'm actually more inclined to put a note in BLFS that making sh -> dash > breaks the bootscripts so don't do it. Marking all bootscripts as > /bin/bash is another option, but that leaves out potential non-LFS > bootscripts. > > Thoughts? > > -- Bruce I would like a warning in the book instead of the current remark - so if I want to link sh to dash, I know I can expect a challenge ;) "Don't do it" is a but too harsh, I think. Figuring out how to implement this deviation from the book (your distro, your rules) is what LFS is about!
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