Bug 124779

Summary:	sys-devel/gcc-config should depend on app-shells/bash
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jaco Kroon <jaco>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jaco Kroon 2006-03-03 05:19:30 UTC

We are using the following script to maintain a cross-compiled ARM installation on a pentium4 machine:

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#! /bin/bash

export CTARGET="armeb-unknown-linux-gnu"
export CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
export ROOT="/root/perch"
export CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"

emerge "$@"
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Now, the first thing we did was emerge gcc (partly because this is a good test that things is working and partly because we need glibc and libstdc++).  We just happened to notice that gcc-config doesn't actually depend on bash.  What would have happened if we were going to install only tsh or busybox inside the ARM environment?

Also, does gcc-config really need to make use of bash or will /bin/sh do?

Is there any plans to switch to using eselect?

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-03-03 05:23:32 UTC

Gentoo won't even boot without bash.