Re: [brlcad-devel] conversion.sh: Is it Supposed to Work?
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From: Christopher S. M. <br...@ma...> - 2011-01-06 04:30:17
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On Jan 5, 2011, at 9:41 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 16:59, John Anderson <Da...@co...> > wrote: >> I see the same behavior on my ubuntu box. I have to do "bash >> conversion.sh" to get it to work. >> Ubuntu links /bin/sh to dash, so it appears that dash cannot handle >> something in conversion.sh > > John, thanks. I had no idea sh was dash--I just assumed it is bash > (it's been that way on the other distros I've been used to for many > years--never thought to check--and debian uses bash--weird!). That is interesting, but the conversion script of course should work with dash too. I've replaced the set -o posix line with similar environment variables since it was only added to help bash catch any non-posixisms during the script's development. If you would, please retest and share whether or not trunk now works with dash. Cheers! Sean |