Bug 176670 – beagle assumes /bin/sh is bash

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2007-05-01 11:55:38 UTC]

as it likes to use exec -a, which is a bashism. Most scripts do use bash, but some use /bin/sh.

[Comment 1 Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2007-05-01 11:56:27 UTC]

Created attachment 117836 [details, diff]
Force bash

[Comment 2 Luis Medinas (RETIRED) 2007-07-17 02:53:42 UTC]

Roy we can apply this patch but we should try to push this to upstream and upstream is unlikely to accept it because it will turn an explicit dependency on bash, doesn't this scripts run on csh fbsd shell ?

[Comment 3 Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2007-07-17 06:43:22 UTC]

-a as an argument to exec is *only* available with bash, so by using it makes bash a dependency.

I could provide a simple patch not to use -a which works on all bourne shells, which imo would be better.

[Comment 4 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2007-07-17 12:15:48 UTC]

The patch can't be applied upstream as it patches files that are generated

[Comment 5 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2007-07-17 12:17:16 UTC]

Created attachment 125151 [details, diff]
patch

...or at least some of them are.

here's a patch I started to write in response to this bug a while ago. Can't remember if I completed it or not.

[Comment 6 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2007-07-17 12:18:19 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> upstream is unlikely to accept it because it will turn an explicit dependency
> on bash

Beagle already explicitly requires bash.

[Comment 7 Cédric Krier 2008-04-26 10:12:04 UTC]

Fix in beagle-0.3