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Subject: Re: Build of attr fails with non-bash shell
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 12:00:14 +0100
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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> Am Freitag, 21. Dezember 2012 schrieb Ludovic Court=C3=A8s:
>> For this and related issues, I=E2=80=99m attempting in the =E2=80=98core=
-updates=E2=80=99 branch
>> to allow builds without /bin/sh in the chroot.  Instead, builds use the
>> Bash binary that=E2=80=99s explicitly passed as an input.
>
> If it can be done, this would be a nice feature. I wondered if one could
> simply add "bash" to the inputs, but this is clearly not enough since it
> does not yet imply that bash is used during the build.

Right.  The difficulty is that many scripts use #!/bin/sh, and some
programs (glibc, awk, etc.) have functions that explicitly launch /bin/sh.

Ludo=E2=80=99.